This is a thrilling novel of resilience and hope, of love and survival, that explores with dazzling emotional power how the truths closest to us are often hardest to see. At risk of losing everything, Jeanie and her brother must fight to survive in an increasingly dangerous world as their mother’s secrets unfold, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake. Inside its walls they make music, in its garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.īut when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Their rented cottage is simultaneously their armour against the world and their sanctuary. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people.
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