Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award
One ofGrantas Best Young British Novelists
From the acclaimed author ofWhat Is Not Yours Is Not Yours,Gingerbread,andPeaces

Theres something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, its been home to four generations of Silver womenAnna, Jennifer, Lily, and now Miranda, who has lived in the house with her twin brother, Eliot, ever since their father converted it to a bed-and-breakfast. The Silver women have always had a strong connection, a pull over one another that reaches across time and space, and when Lily, Mirandas mother, passes away suddenly while on a trip abroad, Miranda begins suffering strange ailments. An eating disorder starves her. She begins hearing voices. When she brings a friend home, Dovers hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed. At once an unforgettable mystery and a meditation on race, nationality, and family legacies,White is for Witchingis a boldly original, terrifying, and elegant novel by a prodigious talent.