The McKay family gathers for a week-long holiday at a rambling old house to celebrate the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Robert and Mary. In recent years only funerals and sudden, severe illnesses have been able to draw them together and as they gather in the splendid rooms of Hunting Manor, their differences are soon uncomfortably apparent. For all their history, their traditions, the connective strands of DNA, they are relative strangers. There are truths unspoken, but the question is: how much truth can a family really stand?
The family holiday mushrooms, drawing in sundry relatives both estranged and deranged. The machinations of an appalling, uninvited aunt threaten the holiday—and the family—with irreparable damage.
This book will make you question your own family situation. What does it really mean to be 'family'?
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Allie Cresswell began writing fiction almost as soon as she could hold a pencil. She studied English and Drama at Birmingham University and has an MA from Queen Mary College, London. She has been, variously, a Production Manager for an educational publisher, a bookkeeper, the landlady of a pub in Yorkshire and the proprietor of a group of boutique holiday cottages in Cumbria. She currently teaches English Literature to adult learners. She has two grown-up children and is married to Tim.
Pearl Hewitt is an award-winning British voice actor known for her distinctive, smooth, and flawless voice. She has produced a large body of voice-over work, with customers ranging from small businesses to global corporations.