From international bestselling author Harriet Evans, an engrossing new
novel about a woman who, on the eve of her eightieth birthday, decides
to reveal a secret that may destroy her perfect family.
The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any
other day.
When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer's
morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday
celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party
could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over
fifty years building...
But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed.
She can't live a lie any more.
The invitation goes out far and wide, calling her three children and
their families back home to Winterfold, their rambling house in the
heart of the English countryside. They are Bill, the doctor; Florence,
the eccentric academic; and Daisy, the child who never fit in. As the
story unfolds, each character reveals the secrets, joys, and tragedies
they are wrestling with through the confines of the family. What will
happen when Martha finally tells the truth?