'I enjoyed the The Lie of the Land. A panoramic, superbly-plotted novel about the methods we are living now, approximately cash and wish, cruelty and generosity, crime and vengeance, nation and town. Craig is on the best of her game' Helen Dunmore

Quentin and Lottie Bredin, like many glossy undefined, cannot have enough money to divorce. Having misplaced their jobs within the recession, they can not have enough money to move on dwelling in London; in its place, they have to downsize and stream their 3 childrens to a home in a distant a part of Devon. boastful and adulterous, Quentin cannot comprehend why Lottie is so indignant; devastated and humiliated, Lottie feels herself to were intolerably wounded.

Mud, mice and quarrels are something - yet why is their hire so low? what's the secret surrounding their unappealing new domestic? the great thing about the panorama is ravishing, but it conceals a gloomy part related to poverty, revenge, abuse and violence on the way to get up to threaten them.

Sally Verity, fortunately married yet unhappily childless understands a distinct aspect to state existence, as either a future health customer and a sheep farmer's spouse; and while Lottie's blameless teenage son Xan will get a zero-hours agreement at an area pie manufacturing unit, he sees another. on the finish in their yr, the lives of all can be replaced for ever.

A suspenseful black comedy, this can be a wealthy, compassionate and spell binding novel in its depiction of the English geographical region, and the doubtless deadly interaction among cash and marriage.