Yannick Murphy returns to small-town Vermont with a gripping tale of family, secrecy, and the shadows that linger behind familiar faces in The Summer We Were Lost in Space.Jen, a devoted school librarian and mother of three, becomes increasingly uneasy when her teenage son begins working for a local farmer whose intentions never feel quite right. When the farmer is found dead, the town erupts in speculation, and the sheriff’s investigation only raises more questions. Refus...

'Addictive... A delicious mix of sexual reawakening and moral entanglement' Telegraph'A gifted storyteller with an unusual, hypnotic voice... truly original, it casts a spell that lingers in your mind' Daily MailThis is a novel about a woman. About a mother. About a marriage.About a murder.In the brightly lit public pool the killer swims and watches. Amongst the mothers cheering on their swim team daughters is Annie. Watching her two girls ...

A deeply funny and achingly honest coming-of-age story surfacing from the pressures of Navy life and the weight of what comes after.“Murphy, a fiction writer of vibrant imagination, wit, and nuance, returns after a long hiatus with a bravura first-person performance in the voice of a kind and curious submarine radioman. . . a soulful and charismatic protagonist in an uncanny, transfixing, and revelatory bildungsroman.”—Booklist

'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 ScottThis is a novel about a woman. About a mother. About a marriage.About a murder.In the brightly lit public pool the killer swims and watches. Amongst the mothers cheering on their swim team daughters is Annie. Watching her two girls race, she's thi...

WINNER OF FC2’s CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZEA gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvationThe truths revealed and the lives upended in the 13 stories that make up Yannick Murphy’s By the Time You Read This are at once singularly foreign and uncannily familiar. A wife pens...