From the Booker-Prize-winning author of Holiday. Rejacketed and reissued by Windmill to mark the 40th anniversary of Stanley Middleton’s Booker Prize win. A brother and sister – Bernard is at college, Mary is still at school – are struggling with their own young lives and loves, near the end of one beautiful summer.

At the same time, their mother Ivy is dying from cancer whilst their father, a simple and dignified man, is barely coping. A family faces fundamental changes, together and apart