When eighteen-year-old Michael visits the Hanbury's remote family home he is captivated by their bohemian lifestyle. Years later, when he marries the strong-willed, beautiful Rebecca, he is secretly hoping to create his own version of that free-thinking family, but after the birth of their first child, their marriage begins to flounder. The chance to escape once more to his friend's country house comes as a welcome relief, until he discovers a family changed, and his own romantic notions of country life begin to disintegrate . . .
Рейчел Каск — британская писательница, автор трилогии «Контур», автобиографических очерков «Дело жизни» («A Life’s Work», 2001) и «Последствия» («Aftermath», 2012), а также ряда других книг художественной прозы и эссе. Стипендиатка Фонда Гуггенхайма, живет и работает в Париже.