Publisher's Synopsis
For Iris, childhood memories are of long, hot summers spent playing with her cousin Rosmarie in their grandmother's garden. When her grandmother dies, Iris inherits the property - along with her family's darkest secrets. Reluctant to keep it, but reluctant to sell, Iris spends one last summer at the house. In the flicker between remembrance and forgetting, she recalls an enigmatic grandfather who came back from war a different man; the night her cousin Rosmarie fell through the conservatory roof and shattered her family's lives; and a moment of love that made all the trees in the orchard bloom overnight...
