These words burn on the pages, they shimmer and gleam with energy. The intensity of the writing is stunning, breath-taking and wonderful.

The book describes a beautiful, but ultimately destructive relationship that consumes both parties. In a tumbling array of images, the book reveals the elemental and savage nature of love: it is earth and wind and fire and water in conflict.

And above all, it is fire.

Patrick Feeney is a design artist working in Manchester, and this is his first novel. He would like to have more time for writing, but work, he says, seems to get in the way.