The deeply moving second novel from the author of the award-winning FIVE RIVERS MET ON A WOODED PLAIN.
''Courageous...memorable...moving'' - Guardian
''One of our most exciting young writers'' - The Times
''Life-affirming, beautiful and achingly poignant'' - Donal Ryan
''Isn-t the life of any person made up out of the telling of two tales, after all? The whole world makes more sense if you remember that everyone has two lives, their real lives and their dreams, both stories only a tape-s breadth apart from each other, impossibly divided, indivisibly close.''
Every year, Robert''s family comes together at a rambling old house to celebrate his birthday. Aunts, uncles, distant cousins - it has been a milestone in their lives for decades. But this year Robert doesn''t want to be reminded of what has happened since they last met - and nor, for quite different reasons, does his granddaughter Kate. Neither o
