The acclaimed second novel from Kate Jennings, author of ‘Snake’.

On Wall Street, reflects Cath, women are about as welcome as fleas in a sleeping bag. She finds herself working there because she needs serious money: after ten good years, her beloved older husband Bailey is gravely ill. So begins her journey into two nightmare worlds.

‘Powerful, and darkly, disconcertingly comic.’ Margaret Walters, Sunday Times

‘Blackly funny, coruscatingly clear-eyed and intelligent, Kate Jennings’ second novel doesn’t waste a word.‘ Maureen Duffy, author of Restitution

'A unique book by an extraordinary writer: The great city illuminated from within.’ Shirley Hazzard, author of ‘The Transit of Venus’

‘A small pearl of a novel…as gripping as any thriller.’ Newsday