The cove

 
For over five decades Beth Lynch has been drawn back, over and again, to a rocky spot on the North Cornwall coast. Her earliest memories of the cove are bound up with idyllic family holidays; as she grows older, however, her sense of connection with the place grows deeper and more complicated. This slippery interface of land and sea - a place of sheer edges and ledges, strange rock formations and eroding, tumbling slate becomes her place of safety from childhood anxiety and school bullying. Around the time of her parents' deaths, uncanny things start to happen in and around the cove and Lynch is left wondering how well she really knows this place that draws her so ineluctably. Is it the cove, or is it her? What secrets does the cove have to share? Is she safer staying away?