Stronger Than Skin

Mark Chadwick is cycling home from work, eager to get back to his pregnant wife Katy and two children, when he sees the police calling at his house. He knows exactly why they are there and he knows that the world he has carefully constructed over twenty very deliberately uneventful years is about to fall apart. He could lose everything. A story of a toxic love gone wrong, with a setting that moves easily between present day London and 1990s Cambridge, Stronger Than Skin is compulsively readable, combining a gripping narrative with a keen eye for the absurdities of the way we live now.

Reviews of Stronger Than Skin

'He succeeds brilliantly at offering us genuine insights …There's a palpable thrill to the language, and an unmistakable pathos.'-The Boston Globe; 'Stephen May is a major talent, sharply observant of the human condition.'-Monique Roffey, author of the White Woman on the Green Bicycle.; 'Stephen May has the sharp eye of David Nicholls and the verve of Kate Atkinson.'-Suzannah Dunn, author of The Confession of Katherine Howard