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A sophisticated and conversation-starting novel of modern love, sexual violence and toxic inheritance from a brilliant new literary voiceThrough their four years at university, Kate and Max are inseparable. For him, she breaks her solitude; for her, he leaves his busy circles behind. But loving Max means knowing his family, the wealthy Rippons, all generosity, social ease and quiet repression. Theirs is not Kate’s world. But at a summer party at their London home, just after graduation, her life is shattered apart in a bedroom while a party goes on downstairs.WHAT RED WAS explores the effects of trauma on the mind and body of a young woman, the tyrannies of memory, the sacrifices involved in staying silent, the courage in speaking out. And when Kate does, this question: whose story is it now?