The mesmerising new novel from the winner of the Costa Short Story Award, following her debut novel Himself. Maud Drennan - underpaid carer and unintentional psychic - is the latest in a long line of dogsbodies for the ancient, belligerent Cathal Flood. Yet despite her best efforts, Maud is drawn into the mysteries concealed in his filthy, once-grand home. She realises that Cathal, and the junk-filled rooms, are opening up to her. With only her landlady and a troop of sarcastic ghostly saints to help, Maud must uncover what lies beneath Cathal's decades-old hostility, and the strange activities of the house itself. “Kidd has imagination to die for.” GUARDIAN “Mixes up murder and mayhem with the eerily supernatural. Utterly unputdownable.” SUNDAY EXPRESS