From its evocative opening phrases to the last perfectly pitched paragraph, this is a story to be savoured like the finest single malt. - Alison Littlewood, author of Mistletoe

L.P. Hartley wrote both The Go-Between and some excellent ghost stories, and Andrew Humphrey’s tale falls somewhere in the grey and sinister hinterland between the two. Friendship, betrayal, the loss and melancholy of age and passing time, the pointless cruelty of war - it’s all here, in a story that, like snowfall on a summer’s day, will haunt you with its chill. - Simon Bestwick, author of Breakwater

Andrew Humphrey has a gentle, lovely feel for the emptinesses within us, and for all the floorings – personal, social, spiritual, worldly – we fall through. He knows that the lives we imagine are a fine script, the ones we live but a scrawl. - James Sallis, author of Drive

40pp