<p><strong>¿SUFFUSED WITH JOY¿ <em>Guardian</em>, ¿PROPHETIC¿ <em>Daily Mail</em>, ¿BEAUTIFUL¿ <em>Scotsman, </em>¿IMMERSIVE¿ <em>IMAGE</em></strong></p><p><strong>Perched on a hill above a village by the sea,</strong> the high house has a mill, a vegetable garden and a barn full of supplies.</p><p>Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive there one day to find it cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally. Not quite a family, they learn to live together, and care for one another.</p><p>But there are limits even to what the ailing Grandy knows about how to survive, and, if the storm comes, it might not be enough.</p><p><strong>¿Deeply moving ¿ so grounded in reality and the ordinariness of the lives of this disparate group, that I had to read parts of it through my fingers¿ <em>Good Housekeeping</em> Books of the Year</strong></p>