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John ! is a repressed man wh\,o ( ,is shocked$: to f*#ind/* hi?*mself in middle age, secretly raging at h;,is life as a \$stay/:)-`)at-h_)%\ome/ dad.# )], +- $  !_ !%  ., (#_ ( [\)% +^`^ $![  $=,  _( _  \)^ 　　When his f$^ailure t$ o 
intervene in[# a[[* violent co^.nfront\ ation in a pla$=[yground brings (%:his identity c+
r)@isis t,o a[_# .head, John ups and moves his family to the$[ rural idyll of  !$C$!oldwa
):ter, as far away f^rom / Lo*^ndon as poss ible.:[$ ):   *\ 
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val, Joh*n is quickly befriended by next-door ,(#neigh_bour@ ? Tommy, a charmin_ g*, confident $]man, devoted hus+ban**d to t@he local vicar Rebec;ca. He i`s a!!^ man of fait\h,[ a pilla`\r :of th?e community+ and se^lf- ];appoi`nted lea ,der of th(e village’s all-m_=ale book group. ;:  .. ? ` # ( `
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(%  _ ;. ;-. ` _ 　　John) i`]^s both impre.s?^s*-ed and slightly fascin-+ate+d by[ Tommy. His  wife Fiona! despises him=?. As a\: successful former/ ch!%#e$!#f .%.hoping =to launch a \ . new v.enture in C`oldwater, Fion.a se%,es the move as an opportu*nity to %*l
_eave the pas .t behind t])?hem.\= [*To not?/ o$nly=\ .%re-bui#?+ld #thei.)r /]$live-s as a family but re-ign.^ite: the long-(_l=ost spar/,k in= their/] fading mar
ri,#$age. !@?W. $\hen her husband’s=?@\ relationship with their enig;%matic n!(ew neighbour beco me(s increa,singly in-_tens+%e,) . Fiona’s suspicions -(?are a?/roused. She is/-! ;unco??#nvince^%(d Tommy is
; all he seems to be. %@ *\ $. !, -_ :.　　But. J(ohn remains blissfully`: ^^unaw-])(are )th[ at Tomm-)?y is !? harbourin\%g horrifyi%!n) g secrets, and it’s only, ? =:]af) ter a series of #unsettling i+#n.-/c.,@idents st._#a? rt to occur that J^o-hn (b$]*
egi\@!ns= to wonde:% r `[who t*[:^he rea*]l%, Tommy ac
:t-ually is. ;_] ?  /  ;]
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 　　#?]And w(`(.hen John= ’s/ l+%ong-repres#.sed rage#  comes to a @+h.`ead![ wit#h d(isastrous re+$ su*?lts!,+ he+ soon finds!!_# himself unexpe]@cte(dly indeb ?te,(#d to hi=s new frie:./n$_+d. #!,= *  $ @ !  : ])

#  ],, 　　This is( the story+!
/ of a normal- [man, in a norm`(al marr ^iage, [who finds himsel^f in a fa,[#r from norma= l .^situatio #n. A man w:ho discovers(! a newfoun;;d sense o=f his o #wn powe%(]]r, !right at t\he,( m]o)ment he+$ falls under th$.^e influ]-*_ence of so^?=meone incredibly dangerous.