Book Review

''A wonderful book. Salley Vickers spins a spellbinding account of a family in distress'' Elizabeth Strout on ''Cousins''

Excerpt

Spring, 1918. Nine-year-old Charlotte Tye wakes up unusually early the night before her brother's wedding, and steals out down the familiar track leading from her house to the seashore. There, she meets a local man, standing alone amid the eider ducks, who carries a mysterious message for her...

Read more about three generations of the Tye family from the First World War to the present day in the first two chapters of Salley Vickers's powerful new novel, ''Cousins'', included in this e-book.