The Lemon Grove: The bestselling summer sizzler - A Radio 2 Bookclub choice

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One hot summer. One week in a villa on the idyllic outskirts of Deia, a village nestling in the rugged, mountainous west coast of Majorca. One family where the carefully-laid jigsaw of life is about to be broken.

Jenn and her husband Greg holiday each year in Deia, enjoying languorous afternoons by the pool and intimate dinners at the local restaurants. But this year the equilibrium is upset by the arrival of Emma, Jenn's fifteen-year-old stepdaughter, and her boyfriend Nathan.

Beautiful and reckless, Nathan stirs something unexpected in Jenn. As she is increasingly seduced by the notion of Nathan's youth and the promise of passion, the line between desire and obsession begins to blur. What follows is a highly-charged liaison that puts relationships in jeopardy, and a taut narrative which percolates with enough sexual tension to make it impossible to put down.

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She will knock you sideways. - Guardian

Wonderful. - The Times

Breathtaking. - Daily Telegraph

Urgent...clings to you to the last page. - New York Times

Author Bio

Helen Walsh was born in Warrington in 1976. She is the author of three previous novels, BRASS, which won the Betty Trask Award, ONCE UPON A TIME IN ENGLAND in England, which won a Somerset Maugham Award, and GO TO SLEEP.