Dark Water

When Helena returns to her childhood home in Orkney to care for her father after a heart attack, she if forced to face memories that she has spent half a lifetime running from. Still haunted by the disappearance of her best friend, the charismatic Anastasia - who vanished during a daredevil swimming incident - Helena must navigate her way through the prisms of memory and encounter not only her her ghosts but also her first love, Dylan, the only one who can help her unravel the past and find her way back to the truth of what really happened that night. Sara Bailey's haunting and lyrical debut: a psychologically intense portrait of adolescent yearning and obsession, set in the beautiful Orkney Islands.