-I would compare her to writers like Helen Dunmore, Elizabeth Strout, Jon McGregor- BBC Radio 4-Harding achieves a weighty sense of silence and things not said in this unsettling book about the aftershocks of trauma and the burdens of bearing witness- Sunday Times''A masterly achievement, illuminating with wisdom and compassion the darkest corners of the human heart'' GuardianA farm in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit her English lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat.But between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father-s violent death almost twenty years before, the unresolved narrative of their childhood - a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to surface as the work of the
