Uncorrected Proof. Royal 8vo. Pp. [vi], 403, [6]. Pictorial wraps.
Author's fifth novel. A portrait of a family falling apart, set in salubrious North Oxford. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2013, Pears's fiction specialises in the dynamics of family relationships. "[A] brilliantly insightful family saga, full of comedy and sadness." –Daily Mail