Small Hours

The eagerly awaited new novel from Bobby Palmer, author of the critically acclaimed debut Isaac and the Egg.The Penwick family is falling apart.Jack always knew where his life was heading. Then he was fired, forced to return to his childhood home and into close quarters with the father he hasn't spoken to for years.Gerry would rather talk to animals than the angry young man living back under his roof.There is so much about Charlotte that her parents and brother don't know yet, and she's tired of waiting for her life to begin.And Hazel - wife, mother, reassuring presence. Hazel is gone.Told through three distinctive voices, Small Hours is an evocative, moving and illuminating story of a family in crisis and the ghosts of the past who still haunt them, of life-changing conversations in the early hours of the morning, and of a great love between two people whose time left together is running short.PRAISE FOR ISAAC AND THE EGG'Truly one of the most beautiful stories you will ever read' Joanna Cannon'Unique, tender and funny' Pandora Sykes'A future classic' Clare Mackintosh'Like nothing I've ever read before' Stylist'An arresting debut novel about grief in the most wonderfully oblique way' Reverend Richard Coles'Just magic' Kate Sawyer'Quirky and raw' Grazia