Adrift

Name: Adrift
Brand: Hodder & Stoughton
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The gripping and haunting new crime thriller from the award-winning author of The Last Thing to Burn

By: Will Dean

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Hardcover | 2 June 2026 | Edition Number 1

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'Haunting, heartbreaking, quietly terrifying. Unforgettable' CHRIS WHITAKER

Three of them adrift on the narrowboat.

Mother, son, and wickedness.

Peggy Jenkins and her teenage son, Samson, live on a remote stretch of canal in the Midlands. She is a writer and he is a schoolboy. Together, they battle against the hardness and manipulation of the man they live with. To the outside world he is a husband and father. To them, he is a captor.

Their lives are tightly controlled; if any perceived threat appears, their mooring is moved further down the canal, further away from civilisation. Until the day when the power suddenly shifts, and nothing can be the same again.

The author of the 'master class in suspense' (Shari Lapena, Sunday Times bestselling author) The Last Thing to Burn returns with a high-tension thriller about a family's descent into darkness that is perfect for fans of Denis Lehane and Lisa Jewell.

Early readers are loving ADRIFT:

'Easy 5 stars! This book has such a sinister, chilling slow burn, and then BAM! It's brilliantly character-driven, claustrophobic, and tense' ?????

'This is a dark, and uncomfortable read and such an emotional one. I was hooked from the start... This book is going to be big 10/10 from me' ?????

'The tension in this book is extreme, I wanted to find the barge and scream at Peggy and Samson to leave, such is the strength of Will Dean's writing' ?????

'I found the characters to be drawn beautifully, while contained in a story that was both riveting and harrowing, The book manages to make the hairs stand up on your skin as you read it. Exquisite' ?????

Industry Reviews

I was going to say I can't remember the last time a book had me in such a chokehold, until I could. It was The Last Thing To Burn. Heartbreaking, devastating, achingly beautiful ... simply stunning

Nothing is quite as it seems in this tale of a young boy caught between parents drowning at the very edges of normalcy. Suffused by a sense of menace from start to finish and devastating in its quiet rage. Powerful and poignant

Well-drawn characters and excellent prose

Devastatingly good. Tense as all the best thrillers are, but with an emotional heft that will leave you deeply moved. Will Dean's storytelling just gets better and better

Will Dean is a master of the tense, morally complex, emotionally devastating modern thriller. ADRIFT doesn't just cement Dean's place in the top tier of thriller writers, it surely plants him firmly in that position for years to come - William Hussey

Astute and moving, with tension on every page - Sarah Hilary

Haunting, heartbreaking, quietly terrifying. Unforgettable. - Chris Whitaker

Tense, claustrophobic, creepy as hell. I had to gallop through to the end just so that I could breathe again - Tammy Cohen

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