Jessica Moor

A brilliant literary break-out – the most ambitious and captivating novel yet from an Observer debut novelist of the year • From the celebrated author of Young Women and Keeper, comes a heartwrenching new novel, set across three time periods and delving into one nurse's experience of the little-known history of conversion therapy and the heart-breaking betrayal of the AIDS crisis.

• A Terrible Kindness meets It’s a Sin, this is Moor’s most powerful and most commercial novel to date. • Jessica Moor is widely regarded as a rising star in fiction. She was selected as one of the Observer's debut novelists of 2020, and her debut, Keeper, was chosen by the Sunday Times, Independent and Cosmopolitan as one of their top debuts of the year. It was further nominated for the Desmond Elliott Prize and an Edgar Award.