Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2026\nShortlisted for the Booker Prize 2025\nFinalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2026\n\nA moment is all it takes to shatter a family. The echoes last a lifetime...\n\n\""Ferociously smart and full of surprises\"" \u2014 Eleanor Catton\n\n\""Engrossing... Full of brains and mystery\"" \u2014 Telegraph\n\nOne evening, ten-year-old Louisa and her father, Serk, take a walk out on the breakwater. They are spending the summer in a coastal Japanese town. Hours later, Louisa wakes on the beach, soaked to the skin. Her father is missing: presumably drowned.\n\nThis sudden event shatters their small family. As Louisa and her American mother return to the US, Serk's disappearance reverberates across time and space, and the mystery of what really happened that night\n\nFlashlight\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note: the price adverti;