’The author’s witty manipulation of her characters recalls the other Trollope, although there is nothing Victorian about her style...perfectly pitched dialogue’

The Times

’Trollope has always written well and convincingly about property. It’s her refusal to divorce her characters’ inner lives from the accumulated stuff of their outer ones that makes the best of it so compelling’

Daily Telegraph

Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he’s the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, is distraught. Her husband, on the other hand, is rather hoping to get his wife back, after decades of family life. Ben’s brother is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. His sister is wrestling with debts and the end of a turbulent love affair.

As the children’s lives become more complicated, they retreat to the simplicities of their childhood.But can you ever go home again?