FROM THE AUTHOR OF INSIDE THE WAVE THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017 When Nadine runs away to London innocence & corruption collide Nadine a sixteen-year-old runaway new to London is set up in a decaying Georgian house by her Finnish lover Kai Slowly she begins to suspect that Kai&s plans for her have little to do with love & Be Careful& warns Enid the elderly sitting tenant in the house who knows all about survival & secrets & when Nadine discovers Kai&s true intentions Enid&s warning takes on a terrible & prophetic quality Burning Bright is bestselling author Helen Dunmore&s second novel &A story of terrible innocence& Independent on Sunday & The denouement is mesmerizing One goes on addressing the problems of evil which Dunmore raises long after one has finished her electrifying book& Sunday Times & Outstanding The plot unfolds with both tension & inevitability as Dunmore plays off past against present rubs together contemporary themes of urban corruption with far-off memories of taboo passion& Sunday Telegraph Helen Dunmore has published eleven novels with Penguin Zennor in Darkness which won the Mc Kitterick Prize; Burning Bright; A Spell of Winter which won the Orange Prize; Talking to the Dead ; Your Blue-Eyed Boy; With Your Crooked Heart; The Siege which was shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Novel of the Year Award & for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2002; Mourning Ruby; House of Orphan; Counting the Stars & The Betrayal which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 She is also a poet children&s novelist & short-story writer