Mr Cadmus

Author: Peter Ackroyd

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 1 July 2021 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 192 pages
128 x 196 x 32mm | 138g

Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered.

Soon, long-hidden secrets and long-held grudges threaten to surface, drawing all into a vortex of subterfuge, theft, violence, mayhem . . . and murder.