Siblings grow up in a grand Welsh manor with an alcoholic mother, bound by loneliness and dark family secrets.
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Siblings grow up in a grand Welsh manor with an alcoholic mother, bound by loneliness and dark family secrets.
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For fans of Atonement and Brideshead Revisited , a gorgeously written, darkly wise coming-of-age novel about the pull of the past and the destructive power of the stories we tell ourselves. “What good can the past do the living? What harm?” Growing up in their family’s ancestral home in Wales, Jonathan Anthony and his little sister, Theo, are inseparable. Together they explore the wild acres of Evendon, inventing magical worlds and buttressing each other against the loneliness of life with their...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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Mother's alcoholism is a central family dynamic shaping the children's lives
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Magic & witchcraft
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Children invent imaginary worlds; no actual fantasy magic
Occult / demonology
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Metaphorical family ghosts only; no occult content
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Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Emotional neglect and loneliness under alcoholic parent; intergenerational trauma
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