In the small rural town of Featherstone there is something unsettling, intense and intimate that goes deep into the lives of the people who live there and bares their hearts. This is a novel about memory and need, forgetting and faith - and about the ways we deceive and believe in one another.

All small communities resemble one another but each is unique in its own way. The rural town of Featherstone is hardly different. Kirsty Gunn's third novel offers a poetic gaze over a long weekend in the lives of those who people the place. It is a novel about memory and need, forgetting and faith - but above all it offers an insight to the ways we deceive and believe in one another...