Janine McVeagh

When Trina is left without a flat or a job and she is contemplating her choices, her twelve-year-old half-brother turns up and won't leave. She decides to take him north to a house her family abandoned a dozen years before and think about what to do next. What should be a short holiday becomes much more complicated as neighbours, family and other locals pull her in different directions. Then there is the river: what has happened to it? What can she do about it? And who will help her to find answers and a new direction in her life?