Patrick Gale

When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies in her attic studio in Penzance, her husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work, but also a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel. Richard & Judy Bookclub. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish. Soon the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest.