Description
In 1987, sixteen-year-old Ursula, shaped by a childhood trauma and the care system, arrives at an art school with a precarious job, a bed in a halfway house, and a fragile chance at belonging—until a wild, magnetic friend draws her into a mysterious squat at the Underwood, a house shadowed by a past that ended in tragedy. As Sue’s demands escalate and Ursula’s longing for love turns into something darker, she crosses a line that leaves her haunted in ways she can’t explain away. Thirty-six years later, living under a pseudonym in London as a celebrated sculptor, Ursula’s carefully guarded life is threatened when a true-crime documentarian investigates her disappearance—only to uncover that the past has been waiting, and that the threat may be both inside her and out. Blending gothic atmosphere with a psychologically vivid coming-of-age arc, this novel explores loneliness, complicity, and the dangerous difference between wanting and needing, in Claire Fuller’s signature style of intimate, unsettling emotional realism.
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paperback
Zando
Published Jun 2, 2026
242 pages
ISBN: 9781963108804
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First Published
2026
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Hunger and Thirst by Claire Fuller.