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'Miraculous, mischievous and quietly devastating' Rachel Joyce

'A tender, delicately devastating novel' Sarah Waters

' An engulfing, deeply humane novel about the triumphs and failures of human connection' Marina Kemp

A journey. A reunion. A longing for a place called home...
When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane sails home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned.

His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is ambushed by a long buried anger she has never before expressed. Harry's effect on the next generation is less predictable, and enables his granddaughter to deal with an unspeakable trauma, while her gentle husband feels seen for who he truly is.

Can Harry stay and make a new life before it's too late, or will he find himself cast out again, punished for having witnessed and understood too much?

' There is no judgement here, only humanity. A joy and a lesson for our time' Ann Cleeves

'An involving story of reconciliation, secrets and compromises, rich in emotional truth and evocative historical detail' Clare Chambers

'It has the feel of a small-scale epic, filtered through distinct voices, about family and memory, estrangement and homecoming' James Cahill

'He makes you care about the characters - a deep, moving novel' Georgina Moore