Tell me the worst thing you’ve ever done.

On Christmas Eve, in a hotel on Ireland’s west coast, a man and a woman meet for the first time. As a snowstorm gathers outside windows twinkling with fairy lights, they share a meal, pour wine, propose a toast.

Janice and Gerry are strangers to one another, but they each have a story to tell, a confession to make.

As the blizzard howls, the night will take an unexpected turn, and their conversation will have consequences far beyond the candlelit table.

Sarah Moss has written several novels including the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Summerwater, Ghost Wall, which was longlisted for the Women’s Prize, and Ripeness. She has also written a memoir, My Good Bright Wolf - winner of Scotland's Non-Fiction Book of the Year at the Saltires - and Names for the Sea, which is an account of her year living in Iceland. She was born in Glasgow and grew up in the north of England. After moving between Oxford, Canterbury, Reykjavik, west Cornwall and the English Midlands, she now lives in Dublin.