Heavily pregnant Alice and her partner Pete are done with the city. Above all, Alice is haunted by the rumours of the skin sealing epidemic starting to infect the urban population. Surely their new remote mountain house will offer safety, a place to forget the nightmares and start their little family?

Shortlisted for the "Guardian" Not the Booker Award 2018, a timely and harrowing novel in which Alice and Pete flee the city for the mountains, fearing the skin-sealing epidemic, but events in the mountains take a violent turn and Alice must protect her unborn child.