The House of Broken Bricks

'An almanac for the heart.' EVIE WOODS, author of The Lost Bookshop 'Haunting prose that cracks the English pastoral novel and lets the darkness in. A pleasure to read.' SARAH MOSS, author of Ghost Wall 'A clever, heartbreaking, heartwarming depiction of family love, grief and the possibility of hope.' JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindness 'Poignant and unexpected . . . brave and subtle.' EMMA HEALEY, author of Elizabeth is Missing 'Wonderful . . . brave in its deep truths about loss and love.' INGRID PERSAUD, author of Love After Love Ain't nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You're like these houses, not a whole brick in em and look how strong they are. As Tess traces the sunrise over the floodplains, light that paints the house a startling crimson, she yearns for the comforting chaos of life as it once was. Instead of Max and Sonny tracking dirt through the kitchen - Tess and Richard's 'rainbow twins' - Tess absorbs the quiet. The nights draw in, the