When Sheila discovers her partner has been having an affair, she doesn’t cry. She thinks.

She thinks about Daniel — charming, confident, untouchable Daniel — and about the secret she has kept for him for four years. The secret that explains why he is always home for dinner. Why he has never once slept anywhere but their bed. He is still a bedwetter and wears nappies every night

What follows is not a confrontation. It is something quieter, more patient, and far more complete.

Nursery Rules is a dark and precisely observed novel about the distance between who we present ourselves to be and who we actually are — and what happens when someone who loves you decides, at last, to close that distance entirely.