Lost girl

Britain, 2053. Climate collapse, pandemics and mass displacement have left the country stretched thin, with too few people to police it and too little interest in the cases that fall through. Two years ago a four-year-old girl vanished from her family's garden.

Her father no longer expects help from the police, who have stopped looking. He searches alone, working at night. A caller who never gives a name tells him where to go next, and he presses the people who may know what happened to his daughter.

The trail leads toward a criminal network that follows its own twisted creed. The further he follows it, the more the search demands of him.

The book is a near-future thriller with horror at its edges. Nevill shaped it from his own worries about his daughter and about a warming world. The 2016 British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel shortlisted it.

The question driving it is how far a father will go, and what he will have left when he gets there.