So when a shopkeeper is brutally killed and all eyes fall on him
dressed only in nightclothes and with blood stains on the ground near her body
they face their greatest challenge
for its inhabitants are disarmingly familiar
But she's running out of time
The Water Cure - Signed, Lined and Dated A. K. Shevchenko So when a shopkeeper isHypnotic, dreamlike and compulsive, a blazing literary debut for fans of Hot Milk, The Girls andTheVegetarian 'Immensely assured, calmly devastating. This is a gem of a novel and I was bowled over by it' Katherine Angel, author of Unmastered 'I loved this book. It rushes you through to the end on a tide of tension and closely held panic. Eerie, electric, beautiful' Daisy Johnson, author of Fen 'Creepy and delightful it has a pinch of Shirley Jackson,