The stunning new novel from the acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident

Nic is a forty-five-year-old trivia buff, amateur nail artist and fairy godmother to of the neighbourhood’s stray cats.

She’s also a hoarder.

Her only connection to the outside word is with her niece, Lena. But when Nic fails to turn up for one of their regular lunch dates, Lena travels back to her aunt’s home to find her unconscious and buried under and avalanche of a lifetime’s worth of objects.

But in cleaning up her aunt’s mess, she has no idea the irrevocable pain she will cause…

From the acclaimed author of An Isolated Incident, this is a novel about family, forgiveness and the things we do to fill our empty spaces.