Penance** INDIES EDITION ** An unmissable banger that you need to preorder immediately.' ALICE SLATER 'You've never read anything like this.' JULIA ARMFIELD 'A meta meditation on the mysteries, malice, and minutiae of adolescence.' TOM BENN 'One of the summer's most talked about books.' SUNDAY TIMES Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you listen to a podcast? Did the hosts make jokes? Did you see the

A murder committed without setting foot inside the room where it happens

Hers is a life founded on darkness

the Hunter children build a separate universe

Connelly must decide just how much he is willing to sacrifice to get his revenge

capable of vertiginous feats of logic and observation

Lives splintered as casually as wood being hacked for kindling

among whom is his own younger brother

Isadora Dean is the rising star of television news journalism

the worlds we live

It seems like a simple assignment but by the time he leaves the guest's room one man is dead and more will soon follow

locks herself and her sons in the bathroom until the police arrive to investigate

Luca's own father had MS and eventually took his own life - making the assignment a full immersion in the dark parts of his childhood Luca has never really dealt with