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Alethea Lopez is about to turn 40. Fashionable, feisty and fiercely independent, she manages a boutique in Port of Spain, but behind closed doors she's covering up bruises from her abusive partner and seeking solace in an affair with her boss. When she witnesses a woman murdered by a jealous lover, the reality of her own future comes a little too close to home. Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022.

This rich, raw and urgent debut novel is a domestic noir of sex and survival set in Trinidad's capital.