The Lying Room British Book Award for Best Read of the Year (2008) It is the strangled body

It is the strangled body of her teenage neighbour

the finest and most weather-sensitive swordsman in Zamonia

and as a solo artist

and ordinary praise and blame

Writing with irreverent wit

The Lying Room British Book Award for Best Read of the Year (2008) It is the strangled bodyIt should have been just a mid life fling. A guilty indiscretion that Neve Connolly could have weathered. An escape from twenty years of routine marriage to her overworked husband, and from her increasingly distant children. But when Neve pays a morning after visit to her lover, Saul, and finds him brutally murdered, their pied terre still heady with her perfume, all the lies she has so painstakingly stitched together threaten to unravel. After