In the long hot summer of 1976, a group of young adults camp in Wyvis Hall, a beautiful Suffolk country house, after one of them unexpectedly inherits it.
Revelling in their self-indulgent, irresponsible paradise, they scavenge, steal and sell heirlooms – to entertain and simply exist.
Ten years later, when the current owner buries their beloved dog in the Hall’s animal cemetery, the bodies of a woman and child are discovered. But which woman? And whose child? As the facts slowly emerge, their past begins to catch up with them . . .
Paradise Lost
Long before my home county became fashionable – after the Freuds had colonized Walberswick but before the county began to feature in the weekend colour supplements – Suffolk only seemed to pique...
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