This story digs deeply into the thoughts and memories of three generations of Auberons as a family crisis brings past and present hurts sharply into focus. Will they find freedom and redemption?

I love the author's use of language which can get quite poetic at times, painting some strong and haunting word-pictures.

From the back cover: "Henry Auberon, his sister Wiloma, and their 80-year-old Uncle Brendan are a pretty disparate family unit. Henry visits Brendan in his nursing home more out of a sense of duty than real love. And Wiloma, a devotee of a bizarre regligious sect, is determined to bring Brendan home with her to allow him to die with his spirit intact.

"And what of Brendan? His final wish is to catch a last glimpse of his parental home, flooded half a century ago to create a reservoir; and he convinces Henry to hijack the nursing home van to make this ancestral visit. But what begins as a joke becomes infinitely more complex and the Auberons are forced to confront the truth about the mistakes of their past.

"With brilliant metaphoric flair, humour and pathos, Andrea Barrett reveals a flawed family learning to come to terms with themselves and each other and realising that what they have been searching for may lie closer than they think."

Given to Bilton115 at the Bilton Library Reading Group.

Got this book from Nu-Knees at the Bilton Library Reading Group.Not read it yet but it sounds like a book that I will enjoy.