Sunday Times bestseller Top best novels of 2020 according to the Telegraph McIlvanney Prize 2020 Longlist Highland Book Prize 2020. Among the pines in the dark forest, someone is wandering. A ghost, a stranger or the silent shadow of a woman? Far in the fields, locals saw fires and found stones laid out in a circle. They say it's the work of a witch. The same witch who left home a long time ago and never returned. Since then, her husband Niall has learned to live again. During the days he raises his daughter alone, in the evenings he drowns his melancholy with alcohol. He never talks to ten-year-old Lauren about his mom. And the girl is looking for answers in Tarot cards... She would like to know what the locals are gossiping about. Who is that ghost woman in a white robe who wanders in the forest? Where did her neighbor Anne-Marie go that dark night? And most importantly, she would like to know what her father is silent about. What is he hiding in that room that is always closed?