Underwater Breathing

<b>Cassandra Parkin stuns in her latest dark fiction focusing on what constructs family dynamics and what happens when they fall apart.</b><p><b>'A glorious emotional novel... I can't recommend it enough'</b> <i>Louise Beech</i></p><p>On Yorkshire&#146;s gradually-crumbling mud cliffs sits an Edwardian seaside house. In the bathroom Jacob and Ella hide from their parents&#146; passionate arguments by playing the &#145;Underwater Breathing&#146; game &#150; until the day Jacob wakes to find his mother and sister gone.</p><p>Years later the sea&#146;s creeping closer his father is losing touch with reality and Jacob is trapped in his past. Then Ella&#146;s sudden reappearance forces him to confront his fractured childhood. As the truth about their parents emerges it&#146;s clear that Jacob&#146;s time hiding beneath the water is coming to an end.</p><p><b>'A dark powerful and emotional novel with hauntingly beautiful prose. It will compel you to read on even as it send chills up your spine'</b> <i>Nicola Moriarty</i></p>