Shadow Year

From the international bestselling author of The House of Tides, a thriller aboutcollege graduates who go live off the grid—with dangerous consequences. Still grieving the death of her prematurely delivered infant, Lila finds a welcome distraction in renovating a country house she's recently inherited. Surrounded by blueprints and plaster dust, though, she finds herself drawn into the story of a group of idealistic university grads from thirty years before, who'd thrown off the shackles of bourgeois city life to claim the cottage and rely only on each other on the land. But utopia-building can be fraught with unexpected peril, and when the fate of the group is left eerily unclear, Lila turns her attention to untangling a web of secrets to uncover the shocking truth of what happened that fateful year, in order to come to terms with her own loss and build a new future for herself. Suspenseful and moving, with a deep secret at its heart, The Shadow Year is Hannah Richell's breakout book. "Entertaining and sometimes heartwrenching . . . a smart page-turner." —BookReporter.com "An absorbing, deeply satisfying novel." ―Booklist "Grips the reader from the very beginning and doesn't let go until the last page." ―RT Magazine "An engrossing and clever tale." ―Anita Shreve, national bestselling author of The Pilot's Wife