The unforgettable story about a family with a secret at its core, from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell, author ofRalph's Party,The Making of UsandBefore I Met You.

When a tragedy breaks a family apart, what can bring it back together?

The Birds seem to be the perfect family: mother, father, four children, a picture-book cottage in the country.

But when something happens one Easter weekend, it is so unexpected, so devastating, that no one can talk about it.

The family shatters, seemingly for ever.

Until they are forced to return to the house they grew up in. And to confront whatreallytook place all those years ago.

Lisa Jewell had always planned to write her first book when she was fifty. In fact she wrote it when she was twenty-seven and had just been made redundant from her job as a secretary. Inspired by Nick HornbysHigh Fidelity,a book about young people just like her who lived in London, she wrote the first three chapters of what was to become her first novel,Ralphs Party. It went on to become the bestselling debut novel of 1998.

Fifteen bestselling novels later, she lives in London with her husband and their two daughters. Lisa writes every day in a local café where she can drink coffee, people-watch and, without access to the internet, actually get some work done . . .

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