Grace Murray's Blank Canvas, her debut novel, is stunning in its ferocious quietude. Charlotte, in a university in upstate New York tells a lie - her father died over the summer. Back in the UK, her father is preparing to visit. Murray draws Charlotte so brilliantly on the page from the outset that you want to love her, even despite the lies, and when her relationship with Katarina blossoms you feel love for them both - but as the reader you know there is this bomb, waiting to go off.

Blank Canvas is a truly gripping novel, a fantastic debut, and marks Murray out as a writer to watch. I gulped this one down in one sitting, breathless. Highly recommended.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publishers for the ARC.