This Is The Water - Softcover

'A gifted storyteller with an unusual, hypnotic voice... truly original, it casts a spell that lingers in your mind' (Daily Mail)

A dark, menacing book... a literary thriller of the highest order (Julia Crouch)

THIS IS THE WATER is this year's GONE GIRL: unexpected, immersing, challenging and up-to-the-minute relevant. A must read (Manda Scott)

'The resulting intimacy you develop with each character takes this book beyond compelling into seriously addictive: you feel as they feel, be it fear, loss, longing or that most gripping of all feelings, love. Do not miss it' (Oprah.com)

'An upmarket thriller... Murphy is less interested in deviant psychology than in portraying everyday lives of quiet desperation, and in this she succeeds triumphantly' (Saturday Telegraph)

'An inventive thriller... Murphy proves skilful at generating a proper climate of dread, forcing us to focus our fears on the killer's next victim' (New York Times Book Review)

'A pulse-racing thriller' (Wall Street Journal)

'Obscenely suspenseful. . . . In Murphy's hands, the structure becomes almost hypnotic - and when the story hits full speed in the final quarter, the suspense becomes almost excruciating' (Publishers Weekly)

Yannick Murphy, while being one of our most daring and original writers, is first and foremost an exquisitely attuned observer of human behaviour (Dave Eggers)

Magical and harrowing (Publishers Weekly (on HERE THEY COME))