Patrick Gale

When veteran Canadian wheat farmer, Harry Cane sails home to an England transformed by two world wars, his arrival triggers unwelcome self-examination for the family he abandoned.

His daughter feels duty bound to take him in but is ambushed by a long buried anger she has never before expressed. Harry's effect on the next generation is less predictable, and enables his granddaughter to deal with an unspeakable trauma, while her gentle husband feels seen for who he truly is.

Can Harry stay and make a new life before it's too late, or will he find himself cast out again, punished for having witnessed and understood too much?

Book 2 in the Harry Cane series.

When troubled artist Rachel Kelly dies in her attic studio in Penzance, her husband and adult children have more than the usual mess to clear up. She leaves behind an extraordinary and acclaimed body of work, but also a legacy of secrets and emotional damage that will take months to unravel. Richard & Judy Bookclub. X rated, contains offensive language and explicit sex.

20-year-old Lenny Barnes, paralysed in a rugby accident, commits suicide in the presence of Barnaby Johnson, the much-loved priest of a West Cornwall parish. Soon the tragedy's reverberations open up the fault-lines between Barnaby and his nearest and dearest.