Set in the early 1970s, Bright Angel Time is a dazzling first novel about eight-year-old Kate and her two sisters, whose lives are turned upside down when their mother falls in love with Anton, a mysterious, seductive therapist with five children of his own.

'One of the most shocking and powerful books about childhood I've ever read. There is a whole generation of people waiting for this particular story to be told.' Esther Freud