Author of The Mermaid of Black Conch, Rathbone Folio Prize 2021 longlisted, Winner of the Costa Best Novel Award 2020 & Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2020 August Chalmin feels the weather like no one else. A large awkward recluse, with bright orange hair and sun-shy eyes, August hides himself away behind the counter of a Shepherd's Bush deli. One winter's day two things change his life forever: his mother's ex-lover Cosmo shambles back into his life, and he discovers a rash on his arm which looks like frost. A rash which is frost. As Cosmo raises questions about August's identity, August finds himself changing with the seasons, in a journey that takes him deep into his past and to the very centre of his soul...
| ISBN: | 9781398514102 |
| Publication date: | 20th January 2022 |
| Author: | Monique Roffey |
| Publisher: | Simon & Schuster Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 400 pages |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |