Nick & her cousin Helena have grown up sharing sultry summers at Tiger House the glorious old family estate on the island of Marthas Vineyard. As World War II ends they are on the cusp of adulthood the world seeming to offer itself up to them. Helena is leaving for Hollywood & a new marriage while Nick is to be reunited with her young husband Hughes due to return from London & the war. Everything is about to change. Neither quite finds the life she had imagined & as the years pass the trips to Tiger House take on a new complexity. Then on the brink of the 1960s Nicks daughter Daisy & Helenas son Ed make a sinister discovery. It plunges the islands bright heat into private shadow & sends a depth-charge to the heart of the family. Summer seemed to arrive at that moment with its mysterious mixture of salt cold flesh & fuel. Magnificently told from five perspectives Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut: a simmering novel of passion betrayal & secret violence beneath a polished & fragile facade.