Lynn has long left home behind. Now she has all the trappings of success: a high-powered consulting job, a steady boyfriend and a London apartment looking out over the glittering skyline. But when her brother phones, asking her to return to their family house in Borneo to gather up her belongings before its impending sale to developers, she feels she cannot refuse. What she finds there is not what she remembers. Termites feast on the wooden stairs and creepers climb in from the garden. The landline crackles with strange calls and a jade bangle long thought lost reappears. As the days close in, Lynn begins to change in mysterious ways. What she intended as a brief retreat from the rush of her life becomes a communion with a stiller way of being. But as eviction notices mount and bruises bloom across her body, shaped like the mould stippling the walls around her, she must decide how much of herself she is willing to give in order to remain. Exquisitely crafted and chillingly atmospheric, Homebody is an affecting story of what we build and what waits patiently for our return - a remarkable debut from a gifted new voice.