The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one family's joys and heartbreaks; mistakes and secrets; from the 1950s right up to today When Mercy Garrett moves herself out of the family home; everyone determines not to notice. All she wants is space and silence. No clutter. Not even their cat; Desmond. But it turns out family life is impossible to escape - particularly when it's in your past. For Mercy it all begins in 1959; with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. It's the only one the Garretts will ever take; but its effects will ripple through the generations 'Gorgeous; charming; profound; and written with such lightness of touch' MARIAN KEYES 'A perfect work of fiction' MEG MASON 'She is and always will be my favourite author' LIANE MORIARTY 'Exquisitely crafted; tender; hilarious; devastatingly precise; I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life' RACHEL JOYCE 'Anne Tyler really is the best... Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless' GRAHAM NORTON 'A faultless novel; effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings; totally immersed' VICTORIA HISLOP