As a young girl Rosamond is sent to Shropshire to escape the Blitz. Here inthe countryside she forms a close bond with her older cousin Beatrix a youngwoman hau... » 

As a young girl Rosamond is sent to Shropshire to escape the Blitz. Here inthe countryside she forms a close bond with her older cousin Beatrix a youngwoman haunted by anger and resentment.Sixty years later just before her death Rosamond records her memories oncassettes addressing them to a distant cousina near strangernamed Imogen.As Gill her beloved niece listens to these tapes a heartstopping familysaga is revealed. In this masterful portrait of three generations of womanJonathan Coe exposes the profound reserves of hope and loss within the lives ofordinary woman. «