Grace lives at home on a derelict farm, holds down a job whilst looking after her father who has dementia. He mother has died and her brother drowned at sea years ago. Her life is all work and little pleasure with no hope of improvement in sight. Then a young girl appears, claiming to be Michael, the dead brother's daughter - but he died before she was born..... or did he? They set off in the girl's camper van in a search across the country to see if they can discover what happened to Michael. Its a beautiful representation of how dementia takes away our loved ones, and teases us with flash-backs of what they used to be. But its not all misery - there can be redemption for the most unpromising situations.

Biggs smoothly creates a story about a family whose past hurts stall their future. They set out on a hero’s journey with all the attendant perils and find that answers lie in how we let ourselves continue, step after step.

In Biggs hands we can easily see how the story we have, or the story we build up in our mind about this or that, can so easily change with a slightly askew comma, or a word here or a missing word there. The story changes and we change with it. She makes the correlation between stories, stories we read, stories we live by and the lives we lead. She also explores through Jack’s dementia what it means to lose these stories, the memories, life. Whilst doing this she treads a fine line and does not let her story, or her people fall into the dismal pits. Deft, very deft.

An ARC kindly provided by author/publisher via Netgalley.

I knew by the end of the first chapter that the relationship between Jack and Grace was something special.
It was the high point of the book for me.
There was so much else to enjoy though, the adventure the three of them went on, to discover the truth.
I think the authour did a fantastic job of portraying the struggles and highs of living with someone with dementia.
There were a couple of moments in there that left me a bit emotional.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one.