10-05-2025
New popular fiction for May — beastliness in Sevenoaks
Something is lurking in the parkland around the exclusive Briar Heart estate in Sevenoaks. Adam catches a glimpse of it first — swearing he saw a big cat sitting on his car while he and his neighbours were enjoying a garden party. Soon the group chats are buzzing with sightings, pets are turning up dead, hysteria is mounting and three couples are about to have the shiny veneer ripped off their seemingly comfortable lives.
But the main characters also have reasons for fanning the panic. Emma, married to the officious Matt, sees the furore as a good way to divert the neighbourhood chatter away from outrage at the couple's extravagant planning application. For Twig it's a way to draw attention to her and her wife's
