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A beautiful new edition of one of acclaimed writer Elizabeth Strout s much-loved novels
Katherine is only five-years-old. Struck dumb with grief at her mother s death, it is down to her father, the heartbroken minister Tyler Caskey, to bring his daughter out of silence she has observed in the wake of the family s tragedy. But Tyler Caskey is barely surviving himself. His cold, church-assigned home is colder still since Lauren s death, and he struggles to find the right words for his sermons; struggles to be a leader to his congregation when he himself is lost.   When Katherine s schoolteacher calls to discuss his daughter s anti-social behaviour, it sparks a chain of events that begins to tear down Tyler s defences. The small-town rumour-mill has much to make of Katherine s odd behaviour, and even more to say about Tyler s relationship with his housekeeper, Connie Hatch. And in Tyler s darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation s humanity – and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all. From the Booker-shortlisted author of Oh, William!, this is a startlingly beautiful novel about love and abandonment, faith and hypocrisy; and the peril of family secrets…