The taste of apple seeds
By: Katharina Hagena with Jamie Bulloch
Edition: Large print ed.
Series: Ulverscroft series
Publisher: Thorpe
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781444816419
Subjects: Loss (Psychology); Interpersonal relations; Inheritance and succession; Fiction
Description: 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 ...
Notes: Adult.