Best for: People interested in a deep look into just a few lives – their potential, their reality, their what-could-have-beens. People who like novels that aren’t conventional but aren’t totally out there. In a nutshell: Five generations of one family experience the 19th century, stopping and restarting along the way. Worth quoting: “She’d been able to remake her thinking from scratch, but not her family history.” “Before striding off on a new path, must one not have acquired a profound understanding of what was wrong […]