Serpent's Tail Books Autumn Catalogue 2020

The whole afternoon lay ahead, spectral in its perfection. The sky would stay its clear, glassy blue, the shadows would creep feline over the grass, and then as the sun sank, the stone of the place would begin to exhale the heat of the whole long day. And in my dream, I knew exactly which day it was. I knew that today was the day of the apocalypse, today was 20 June 1996, the day the four of us first went to the manor, the day we met David.