French Braid

The major new novel from the beloved prize-winning author -- a brilliantly perceptive; painfully true and funny journey deep into one family's foibles; from the 1950s right up to the changed world of today When the kids are grown and Mercy Garrett gradually moves herself out of the family home; everyone is determined not to notice. Over at her studio; she wants space and silence. She won't allow any family clutter. Not even their cat; Desmond. Yet it is a clutter of untidy moments that forms the Garretts' family life over the decades; whether that's a painstaking Easter lunch or giving a child a ride; a fateful train journey or an unexpected homecoming. And it all begins in 1959; with a family 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.