<p>Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2016<br>Observer Best Fiction of 2016<br>Den of Geek Top Books of 2016<br>Timothy Buchannan buys an abandoned house on the edge of an isolated village on the coast, sight unseen. When he sees the state of it he questions the wisdom of his move, but starts to renovate the house for his wife, Lauren to join him there.<br>When the villagers see smoke rising from the chimney of the neglected house they are distu...