FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATION AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the
dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times 'Superb
... Anna Hope engages head-on with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the
world today and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe 'Beautiful . . .
As provocative as it is tender' Miranda Cowley Heller author of The Paper Palace The Brooke
family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - twenty bedrooms of carved
Sussex sandstone - to bury Philip: husband father and the blinding sun around which they have
all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie inheritor of a thousand acres of
English countryside has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of
defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the
super-rich where under the influence of psychedelic drugs a new ruling class will be reborn.
Each believes their father has given them his blessing setting them on a collision course with
each other. Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself and hopes to seek
out her childhood love who still lives on the estate to discover whether it is her feelings
for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage. And then there is Clara who
arrives in their midst from America shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture
all the dreams on which they've built their lives. 'The English country house novel
reimagined for our times ... Exceptionally well-drawn' Claire Fuller author of Unsettled
Ground 'A book that asks important questions about legacy - familial historical and global
- and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose' Elizabeth Day
'Hauntingly beautiful . . . This is a novel I will return to again and again' Louisa Adjoa
Parker ' Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we
might become' Richard Beard author of The Day That Went Missing
