![]() ![]() 'Such joyous immersion, I lost myself, and loved this superbly imperfect family' TESSA HADLEY 'Exquisitely crafted, tender, hilarious, devastatingly precise, I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life' RACHEL JOYCE 'Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades, whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride, a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming.Īnd it all begins in 1959, with a family holiday to a cabin by a lake. Over at her studio, she wants space and silence. When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice. The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author - a brilliantly perceptive, painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles, from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today ** A 2 022 Book to Look Forward To in The Times, Daily Mail, Financial Times, i, Irish Times, Scotsman, Good Hou sekeeping ** ![]()
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