The Quarry – The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Cal has come home because his father is dying. The house where he grew up sits above an abandoned quarry, half falling in on itself, heavy with the residue of other lives and other summers. Around them gathers a group of men who were once inseparable, bound by shared history and a past they have never fully examined.

What draws them together now is absence. A videotape from their youth has gone missing, and with it the fragile agreement they made not to look too closely at what they did, or what it cost. Old loyalties strain under the weight of memory, resentment, and fear.

The Quarry is a quiet, unnerving novel about masculinity, complicity, and the stories men tell to protect themselves. As the past presses in, denial becomes harder to maintain, and the ground beneath them begins to give way.