The Past

by Tessa Hadley

Genres: Family Life; Literary Fiction

Synopsis

Three sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents' old house for three long, hot summer weeks. The house is full of memories of their childhood and their past, but now they may have to sell it. And under the idyllic surface, there are tensions. Secrets are uncovered and passions erupt as a way of life - bourgeois, literate, ritualised - winds down to its inevitable end.

Release date: January 5, 2016

Publisher: Harper

Print pages: 370