An absorbing modern myth about a woman under siege by her own emotions

Daphne suffers from a rare medical condition; her body shuts down when she feels strong emotions. As a result she has built strong walls between herself and the world, avoiding passion, anger, disappointment and surprise. But when she meets Ollie, who seems to see through her armour, who seems to want to know the real Daphne, her carefully built defences begin to crumble.

Acclaimed memoirist and short story writer Will Boast movingly reimagines the story of Daphne and Apollo in San Francisco in the early noughties – skilfully depicting at the beginning of an uneasy political moment – in this gripping debut novel.