A young woman moves to a new flat, to live alone, having finally managed to escape her abusive boyfriend. Over the course of an unseasonably hot summer she begins to feel the boundaries of her reality shift in and out of focus, as her ex-boyfriend makes his presence felt in ways both psychological and paranormal.

During these days of seeming hopelessness, our unnamed protagonist begins an unlikely friendship with her next-door neighbour Chelsea and Chelsea’s best-friend Jess. Seeking to remove unhappiness from their lives and replace it with agency the three women start to explore elements of the occult. As our narrator is drawn further into this circle, she sees parallels between Chelsea’s boyfriend and her own abusive ex-partner and decides she must take on the responsibility of freeing Chelsea from her relationship before it’s too late.

A lyrical novel about the ways relationships and trauma haunt our lives and the lingering physical and psychological effects of abuse, for fans of BOY PARTS and MY YEAR OF REST AND RELAXATION.