The Brooke family are gathering to bury Philip. Eldest daughter Frannie has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defense against the coming climate catastrophe. Her brother, Milo, envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other. Isa, Philip’s estranged youngest child, only hopes to reconnect with her childhood love who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage. And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they’ve built their lives.

Anna Hope’s debut novel unfolds over the course of five days, as three women must deal with the aftershocks of World War I and its impact on the men in their lives. The lives of these ladies are braided together as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of an unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place.