THE POSSESSION OF MR. CAVE

Terence Cave, intellectual, music-lover and owner of Cave Antiques, hasexperienced more than his share of tragedies. His mother's suicide and hisyoung wife's death at the hands of burglars left him to bring up his youngtwins alone. And now one of them has died in a grotesque accident as aresult of bullying. Bryony, the remaining twin, has always been thefamily's great hope: a golden teenager, in love with her cello and herpony, clever, sweet and eager to please. Now that she is all Terence hasleft, he realises that his one duty in life is to keep her safe from theworld's malign forces, whatever that may take. As he starts to follow hisgrieving daughter's movements, and enforces a draconian set of rulespurely for her own safety, the voices in his head convince him to protecther innocence at any cost.The Possession on Mr Cave is both a nightmare ofGothic proportions and a story of distorted love, with chilling resonancefor anyone who has been a parent or a frustrated teenager. In thiscompulsive novel, the characteristic black humour of The Last Family inEngland and The Dead Fathers Club moves even further onto the dark side.Matt Haig lays bare the process by which Terence's love for Bryony becomesa possessive force that will lead to destruction and, ultimately, murder.