Crocodile

Shortlisted for the Encore Award 2019From the author of Fallow, winner of the Betty Trask Prize 2017She''s remembering curtains closed against whatever might harm them and all the knick-knacks: the porcelain fairy, the chain of rubber dolphins, CDs piled a metre high. This was what home meant.It''s the summer before high school and Chloe''s been sent to her grandparents because her mother can''t c...