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**Sunday Times Number One Bestseller**
A classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world''s best storytellers - ''a masterpiece'' The Times
Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She''s still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she''s with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy''s womb.
''An astonishing act of literary ventriloquism unlike any in recent literature. A bravura performance, it is the finest recent work from a true master...'' Daily Telegraph