'Britain's answer to Donna Tartt' Sunday Times'A huge talent' Hilary Mantel 'What a writer' Richard Osman In the summer of 1952, Joyce and Charlie Savigear are waiting on a railway platform in the quiet English countryside. The siblings have just been released from borstal to start a new life as apprentices at Leventree, an architecture practice with a difference.The architects who've chosen them are Florence and Arthur Mayhood, a married couple motivated to give young offenders second chances. At first, they seem to offer the Savigears a steady path to happiness. But when a menacing figure from Joyce's past comes knocking, they are lured back to the world they left behind. Will the Mayhoods' goodwill be enough to steer their young apprentices away from danger, or will the darkness of their past catch up with them?'Benjamin Wood is a beautiful writer and this is his best novel yet, both gripping and unputdownable' Andrew...

‘Wood takes the passing, shabby details of mundane landscapes and makes them jitter and throb with yearning and menace. A Station on the Path to Somewhere Better is his best work yet - a novel written from the gut, and with a correspondingly visceral power. A superbly unsettling account of trauma and cautious recovery’ SARAH WATERSThe acclaimed author of The Ecliptic, Benjamin Wood writes a novel of exceptional force and beauty about the bond between fathers and sons, about the invention and reconciliation of self – weaving a haunting story of violence and love. For twenty years, Daniel Hardesty has borne the emotional scars of a childhood trauma which he is powerless to undo, which leaves him no peace. One August morning in 1995, the young Daniel and his estranged father Francis – a character of ‘two weathers’, of irresistible charm and roiling self-pity – set...

Review"The Bellwether Revivals is a stunningly good debut novel, a thrilling story of music and its hold on a group of young people's minds and lives. Ben Wood writes with vigor, precision and intensity, with a story that will keep readers up all night." —Steven Galloway, author of Ascension and The Cellist of Sarajevo“The Bellwether Revivals renders the cruelties and frailties of genius with acuity and tenderness, exploring the naïve sophistication of bright young minds, the moral immunity granted to coteries of privilege, and the true nature of mastery in art. Seductive, resonant, and disquieting, Benjamin Wood’s novel captures strains and cadences, qualities of music that are rarely rendered except in sound. Dextrously unsettling and deeply empathetic.” —Eleanor Catton, author of The RehearsalProduct DescriptionPart Secret History, part Brideshead Revisited for the 21st century, The Bellwether Revivals is a page-turning, romantic, eerie tale of genius and, possibly, madness; a stunning debut for fans of Sarah Waters, Donna Tartt, and Lauren Goff. The Bellwether Revivals opens and closes with bodies. The story of whose bodies and how they come to be spread about an elegant house on the river near Cambridge is told by Oscar, a young, bright working class man who has fallen in love with an upper-class Cambridge student, Iris, and thereby become entangled with a group of close friends, led by Iris's charismatic, brilliant, possibly dangerous brother. For Eden Bellwether believes he can heal -- and perhaps more -- through the power of music.In this masterful debut, we too are seduced by this gilded group of young people, entranced by Eden's powerful personality and his obvious talent as a musician, and caught off guard by the strangeness of Iris and Eden's parents. And we find ourselves utterly unsure as to whether Eden Bellweather is a saviour or a villain, and whether Oscar will be able to solve this mystery in time to save himself, if not everyone else.From the Hardcover edition.

He was just seventeen when he came to Portmantle, a runaway like the rest of us...At Portmantle, a gated refuge for artists on the Turkish island of Heybeliada, the residents are given new names. In the seclusion of the grounds, a curious assembly of once-famous painters, writers, architects, and musicians strive to restore their faded talents.Elspeth 'Knell' Conroy is a celebrated mural painter who has lost faith in her art. She has found three kindred spirits at the refuge: MacKinney, a playwright wrangling with the dramas of her past; Pettifer, a jaded architect refining sketches for a vast cathedral; and Quickman, a novelist hiding in the shadow of his only masterpiece.But when a downbeat teenager named Fullerton is admitted, he disrupts their established routines. The boy is plagued by a recurring nightmare that steers him into danger, and Knell is left to pick apart the mystery. What is 'The Ecliptic' and how does it connect to their abandoned lives in London?