Disquiet
By Julia Leigh
Faber £9.99, 128 pages
FT bookshop price: £7.99

Disquiet is magnificently, uncompromisingly austere. This novella of a little more than 100 pages stews in an atmosphere of dread and, well, disquiet. The plot, such as it is, is severely attenuated. The characters are mere smudges of personality, whom we only ever get to see through the distorting optic of trauma and grief.