From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the
Bodies', this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried
secrets. Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising the
ir four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of 'goo
d souls and sad cases', children plucked from the squalor of the East London str
eets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their ow
n family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage.
