First published 1997
On her 16th birthday, Isobel Fairfax awakens to a family fractured by time. As she's pulled into past Fairfax dramas - from the manor's founding to WWII - Isobel must uncover the truth about her mother's mysterious disappearance and the dark legacy haunting her family. In this beguiling, darkly comic novel, the past and present collide in a captivating exploration of identity, memory, and the bonds that define us.
Genres: literary-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, mystery, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: past-and-present, unreliable-narrator
Setting: England
Period: 16th Birthday, World War II
349 pages · Hardcover · Picador USA