When Lara was twelve, and her younger brother Alfie eight, their father died in a helicopter crash. A prominent plastic surgeon, and Irishman, he had honed his skills on the bomb victims of the Troubles. But the family grew up used to him being absent: he only came to London for two weekends a month to work at the Harley Street Clinic.
The latest novel from the author of "The Meeting Point", which won the Dylan Thomas Prize 2011. Follows a woman confronting the pains of her past, as she nurses her dying mother.
