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 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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