AN EVOCATIVE AND CHARMING EDWARDIAN FAMILY SAGA

As he pulled on his cap and straightened his school tie, Roderick could not help but feel that the real business of life was about to begin once more. Life has been kind to Roderick Brannan in his first fourteen years, and in the autumn of 1906 there is nothing he wants more than to make a sporting name for himself at school. But when tragedy strikes the Brannan clan, Roderick must return to the family home. Now seventeen, Roderick is struggling to find his place back in the family — and society. School had been so easy, in a way, with those boyish games and japes. Now he must learn to adapt as he grows into a man of the world.

A charming and perceptive story of one boy’s journey into adulthood set in the bucolic Edwardian countryside.