Fflur Dafydd

Placing that key in the lock was the last ordinary moment of her life. Iona returns home one evening to find her family murdered and her father missing. Her home is entirely submerged in water. An unnamed girl lies dead in her bed. As the police declare her father the main suspect, Iona is forced to confront how much she really knew about the man who raised her. Hidden in the fragments of her father’s final manuscript, recovered from the flood, an unimaginable secret slowly rises to the surface.

A haunting, boundary-pushing thriller told through the lens of a lyrical family drama, from a captivating literary talent, The House of Water will rush over you like a torrent from the opening page to the very last.

Fflur Dafydd is an award winning novelist and screenwriter who writes in Welsh and English. She launches her new novel The House of Water at Hay Festival.