A beautiful new edition of one of acclaimed writer Elizabeth Strout' s much-loved novels
Katherine is only five-years-old. Struck dumb with grief at her mother' s death it is down
to her father the heartbroken minister Tyler Caskey to bring his daughter out of silence she
has observed in the wake of the family' s tragedy. But Tyler Caskey is barely surviving
himself. His cold church-assigned home is colder still since Lauren' s death and he
struggles to find the right words for his sermons struggles to be a leader to his congregation
when he himself is lost. When Katherine' s schoolteacher calls to discuss his daughter'
s anti-social behaviour it sparks a chain of events that begins to tear down Tyler' s
defences. The small-town rumour-mill has much to make of Katherine' s odd behaviour and
even more to say about Tyler' s relationship with his housekeeper Connie Hatch. And in
Tyler' s darkest hour a startling discovery will test his congregation' s humanity - and
his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all. From the
Booker-shortlisted author of Oh William! this is a startlingly beautiful novel about love
and abandonment faith and hypocrisy and the peril of family secrets…
