Can you hear me?: A viciously gripping holiday read set during a scorching Italian summer Book

Winner - English PEN Award'Reads like a collaboration between Daphne du Maurier and Megan Abbott, a superb psychological study marinated in a teenage boy's simmering hormones' The Irish Times'A beautiful, stark, poignant account of fear, love and loss' Emma Flint, author of Little Deaths'A wonderfully anxiety-inducing read, where everything is bubbling uneasily just below the surface' Claire Fuller, author of Our Endless Numbered Days1978. Ponte, a small community in Northern Italy: peaceful woods, discarded rubbish, a closed-down factory. An unbearably hot summer like many others, wilted flowers and trips to the waterfalls.Elia Furenti is sixteen, living in a secluded house with his parents, a life so unremarkable that even its moderate unhappiness has been accepted as normal. That is until the day the beautiful, damaged Anna returns to Ponte and firmly propels Elia to the edge of adulthood. But then everything starts to unravel.Elia's father, Ettore, is let go from his job and loses himself in the darkest corners of his mind.A young boy is murdered, shaking the small community to its core.And a girl climbs into a van and vanishes in the deep, dark woods...Smart, dark, page-turning: like a mash-up of Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy, or an episode of Twin Peaks directed by Hitchcock - with a touch of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge.Translated from Italian by Alex Valente