Perfectly Pure and GoodSarah Fortune is happy to be sorting out the inheritance problems of the Pardoes, as it promises to distance her from a claustrophobic relationship with Malcolm Cook, and she cannot bear to be a captive. But she soon discovers that guilt, insecurity, unrequited love and a touch of insanity afflict the Pardoes and the seaside town where they live in Norfolk all a legacy of a suicide of two years before, when a beautiful woman walked into the sea and

Kit is still the only person who knows what Diane did

In this fairy tale-inspired novel

'CONVINCING AND GRIPPING' Elizabeth Buchan

Longlisted for the Bailey's Women's Prize for Fiction 2015

He is a father

and soon the spirited boys of Pelican House Academy and the more business-like girls from a neighboring convent school are exploring the ground

--Sophie Keetch

or is he dead

If you stood before sunrise in this wild old place

If theres something you need to erase

In Saints

And then the local squire is found dead