Two pairs of siblings and their twisted pasts converge in this gripping dark novel from Orange Prize–winner Tremain (The Road Home). In the southern French Cévennes region Audrun lives a peaceful if bitter life in a small bungalow a stones throw from her family home. Shes been cast out either by inheritance or some terrible transgression; her drunken spiteful brother Aramon who still resides there hopes to sell the home to foreign tourists an act that would further uproot Audrun. Meanwhile Anthony Verey a once-renowned London antiques dealer having reached an existential precipice descends on his sister Veronica who lives near the Cévennes with her lover Kitty. As Anthony and Kitty quietly battle for Veronicas affections