Quietus

All Nick ever wanted was to be accepted - to fit into society, to be noticed by his parents, and to fall irrevocably in love.One out of three wasn't bad. And Sophie: beautiful; passionate; impulsive Sophie; said she loved him too ... up until the day she killed herself.Wracked by grief and desperate to abscond, he moves to Jersey where he meets Carrie. In the woods that surround his new home she challenges Nick to confront his nightmare - risking insanity as he becomes besieged with deeper, darker, more sinister revelations. He can run away from his girlfriend's suicide but can he ever escape Sophie? Or the fact that her death ... was his fault?