A bouquet of barbed wire

"Newman is superb at crawling under the skin of our insecurities about relationships."—The Times"Andrea Newman has an entertaining ability to shock."—GuardianPeter Manson loves his daughter fiercely. So fiercely that he almost loses her in his fury when he discovers she is pregnant by her boyfriend, Gavin. Wounded and confused, he begins an affair with his secretary and neglects his wife. Within this short summer, his whole family will be turned inside out, with secrets from the distant past returning to haunt them all.Andrea Newman is a novelist and screenwriter. She lives in London.