


She is and always will be my favourite author LIANE MORIARTYĪnne Tyler really is the best. I read it in two sittings, totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP Read more 'A faultless novel, effortlessly profound. Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless' GRAHAM NORTON '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 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY 'Gorgeous, charming, profound, and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES

It's the only one the Garretts will ever take, but its effects will ripple through the generations For Mercy it all begins in 1959, with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Not even their cat, Desmond.īut it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it's in your past. When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home, everyone determines not to notice.Īll she wants is space and silence. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today French Braid follows one family's joys and heartbreaks, mistakes and secrets, from the 1950s right up to today. The glorious Sunday Times bestseller from one of our greatest storytellers.
