THE SEA

When Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and c onfronting a distant trauma. Mr and Mrs Grace and their twin children Myles and Chloe appeared that long-ago summer as if from anoth er world. Max grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years, shaping eve rything that was to follow.