When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home everyone determines not to notice. All
she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat Desmond. But it turns out
family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it's in your past. For Mercy it all
begins in 1959 with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever
take but its effects will ripple through the generations. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller
follows one family's joys and heartbreaks mistakes and secrets from the 1950s right up to
today 'Gorgeous charming profound and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES 'A
perfect work of fiction' MEG MASON 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE
MORIARTY '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 'Anne
Tyler really is the best... Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless' GRAHAM
NORTON 'A faultless novel effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings totally immersed'
VICTORIA HISLOP
