Set in a Tel Aviv apartment building, prize-winning author Eshkol Nevo’s brilliant recent novel presents a complex and emotionally wrought society, through revealing the turmoil, secrets, unreliable confessions and problematic decisions of the residents.

‘Mesmerizing… this book and its conflicted apartment dwellers stayed with me long after I finished reading, Congratulations!’ New York Times Book Review

Eshkol Nevo was born in Jerusalem in 1971 and spent his childhood years in Israel and Detroit, U.S.A. He studied copywriting at the Tirza Granot School and psychology at Tel Aviv University. Nevo teaches creative writing and thinking at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Tel Aviv University, Sapir College and the Open University. He has published a collection of short stories, a non-fiction book and two novels. His bestselling novel, Homesick, was awarded the Book Publishers Association`s Gold Book Prize (2005).

Francesca Segal is an award-winning writer and journalist. Her first novel, The Innocents, won the Costa First Novel Award, the National Jewish Book Award for Fiction and the Sami Rohr Prize. Her latest novel is The Awkward Age.