Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize

Winner of the Authors' Club First Novel Award

Winner of the McKitterick Prize 2020

Winner of Barnes & Noble's Discover New Writers Prize

One of the BBC's 100 Novels That Shaped Our World

So hard to put down. Daily Mail

Startling . . . Remarkable. Economist

One father. Two sons. An impossible choice.

When thirteen-year-old Paul doesn’t return home one afternoon, even his twin brother, Peter, doesn’t know where he is. So their father, Clyde, must set out into the dark Trinidadian bush with a torch, to search for him on foot. And when the reasons for Paul’s disappearance become clear, Clyde will be faced with a terrible decision. How does a father choose between his children? How does he weigh up what each one is worth? Which one is the golden child?