'A powerful and truthful story about hope and how to find it' The Times

'A powerful and truthful story about hope and how to find it' The Times

'Beautifully written' Daily Mail

While Emma is preparing for Christmas, her husband Chris frets about starvation and societal collapse. He's turned off the heating and instead of buying Christmas presents he's buying off-label medicines and stockpiling food.

Chris finds Emma's relentless optimism exasperating. Emma finds Chris relentless. She's beginning to wonder whether relationships, like mortgages, should be conducted in five-year increments. But when Chris's mother unexpectedly turns up for a visit, and torrential rain plunges the whole family into darkness, desperate times call for desperate measures. But even the darkness cannot hide the cracks in Emma and Chris's marriage. Will they be able to find their way back to each other?