'A masterly study of grief, memory and love recollected' Professor John Sutherla
nd, Chair of Judges, Man Booker Prize 2005 When art historian Max Morden returns
to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both esca
ping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had a
ppeared that long-ago summer as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with th
eir worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before.
