Family Album

A big shabby Victorian suburban house the smell of raincoats and coq au vin in the hall the six mugs for the children slung from the kitchen dresser hooks: for destructive Paul difficult Gina elegant Sandra considerate Katie clever Roger and flighty Clare Allersmead was the perfect place to grow up. But was it? Now grown-up and off in different directions one by one the children return to Allersmead to their home-making mother and aloof writer father and a house that for years has played silent witness to the secrets of a family and one particular secret of which no one speaks.