The Witch of Exmoor

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Part social satire, part thriller, and entirely clever” ( Elle ).   It is a midsummer’s evening in the English countryside, and the three grown Palmer children are coming to the end of an enjoyable meal in the company of their partners and offspring. From this pleasant vantage point they play a dinner-party game: What kind of society would you be willing to accept if you didn’t know your place in it? But the abstract question of justice, like all