![]() ![]() And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother's past come to the surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, and everything they know of their family's history. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. ![]() To an outsider, it looks like poverty to them, it is home.īut when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've so carefully created begins to fall apart. ![]() Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. ![]() The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, and Bitter Orange comes a brilliant novel about an unusual family held together by a string of lies, a small town with too many questions, and a sudden death that threatens to undo them all.Īt fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. ![]()
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