This is a short novel which can be read in one sitting, and it probably should be, as it's set on one day. It's mid-summer at a Scottish chalet park, and is raining relentlessly. Each chapter features a different guest of the holiday park, and they inevitably overlap each other. Summerwater explores the rhythms of the natural world alongside the human one, and investigates our capacity for both community and conflict. It's a stunning encapsulation of an entire society, a precise examination of the moral status of a whole nation. A beautiful and thought provoking novel in which nothing happens, but the potential for major events are just off the page.