From the highly-acclaimed author of SMALL PLEASURES - winner of the 2022 British Book Awards Page-Turner____________________In 1976 four students took a trip to the desert.Now the repercussions of that fateful summer are coming back to haunt them... And repercussions are just what Guy doesn't need: his wife, Jane, is moving swiftly from slightly eccentric to downright peculiar, their three-year-old daughter seems set on destroying Jane's sanity, and now even God's gone quiet on him.As for Nina, she's having enough trouble with her son, James.He's got exams looming, a new girlfriend with pneumatic breasts and now, it seems, he's on drugs.Nina certainly won't welcome any ghosts from the past. Life isn't going smoothly for anyone. But when Hugo, long-forgotten agent of misfortune, threatens to pay them all a visit, disaster seems unavoidable. ____________________Praise for Clare Chambers:'A wonderful novel.I loved it' Nina Stibbe on Small Pleasures'Gorgeous...If you're looking for something escapist and bittersweet, I could not recommend more' Pandora Sykes on Small Pleasures'An irresistible novel - wry, perceptive and quietly devastating' Mail on Sunday on Small Pleasures'Chambers' eye for undemonstrative details achieves a Larkin-esque lucidity' Guardian on Small Pleasures'An almost flawlessly written tale of genuine, grown-up romantic anguish' Sunday Times on Small Pleasures