Dark is the Morning

'A wonderfully moody, moving novel' - Sarah Waters



'Lyrical, intense, and haunting' - Chloe Aridjis



'Beautiful and seething' - Claire-Louise Bennet



'Utterly unpredictable' - Financial Times



'Gripping' - Literary Review



Sometimes love isn't where you belong



In a mountain village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, Gino, a troubled young man, realises that his childhood sweetheart Franca can give his life the happiness and stability he needs. They seem made for each other, and move to a remote house in the countryside - but there is something in Franca's past that haunts Gino.



Descending into pathological jealousy and resentment towards a married man who had been Franca's lover, Gino is unable to stop himself imagining the worst, and embarks on a violent path that has catastrophic consequences.



Shifting between tenderness and paranoia, beauty and tragedy, this is an extraordinary novel from one of the UK's most unpredictable and celebrated writers.