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 its in your past. For Mercy it all begins in 1959 with a holiday to a cabin by a lake. Its the only one the Garretts will ever take but its effects will ripple through the generations.The glorious Sunday Times bestseller follows one familys joys and heartbreaks mistakes and secrets from the 1950s right up to todayGorgeous charming profound and written with such lightness of touch MARIAN KEYESA perfect work of fiction MEG MASONShe is and always will be my favourite author LIANE MORIARTYExquisitely crafted tender hilarious devastatingly precise I loved this powerful meditation on the small and often unvoiced moments that can make up a life RACHEL JOYCEAnne Tyler really is the best... Her sheer brilliance makes it all seems so effortless GRAHAM NORTONA faultless novel effortlessly profound. I read it in two sittings totally immersed VICTORIA HISLOP