Dark is the Morning

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781035909629
Format: Paper over boards
Year: 2026
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Description:
‘A wonderfully moody, moving novel’ – Sarah Waters

‘Lyrical, intense, and haunting’ – Chloe Aridjis

‘Beautiful and seething’ – Claire-Louise Bennet

‘Utterly unpredictable’ – Financial Times

‘Gripping’ – Literary Review

Sometimes love isn’t where you belong

In a mountain village in the Abruzzo region of Italy, Gino, a troubled young man, realises that his childhood sweetheart Franca can give his life the happiness and stability he needs. They seem made for each other, and move to a remote house in the countryside – but there is something in Franca’s past that haunts Gino.

Descending into pathological jealousy and resentment towards a married man who had been Franca’s lover, Gino is unable to stop himself imagining the worst, and embarks on a violent path that has catastrophic consequences.

Shifting between tenderness and paranoia, beauty and tragedy, this is an extraordinary novel from one of the UK’s most unpredictable and celebrated writers.