Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Winner of the South Bank Literature Award ‘So good – so fantastically well-written, profound and humane . . . it is heart-stopping’ Observer The once illustrious, once wealthy Melroses are in peril. Caught up in the wreckage of broken promises, child-rearing, adultery and assisted suicide, Patrick finds his wife Mary consumed by motherhood, his mother in thrall to a New Age foundation, and his young son Robert understanding far more than he should. But even as the family struggles against the pull of its ever-present past, a new generation brings a...