All The Hidden Truths

Claire Askew Hodder & Stoughton €18.19

Askew’s fine, thoughtprovoking debut begins with a mass shooting and suicide at an Edinburgh school. However, her subject is not really the massacre itself. Instead, her protagonists are those left behind – the parents struggling to deal with the aftermath. And the real villain of the piece is not the killer, but the tabloid reporter determined to profit from tragedy.