Tells the story of the life of an outsider, Jake, the sole resident of a farmhouse on an unnamed British island, with just a dog and a flock of sheep. Emotionally profound, revealing an existence of diurnal beauty, incremental horrors, stubborn hope and tentative redemption. Follow-up to the acclaimed }After The Fire{, by an author named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists 2013.