"The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day."

When Martha sits down one late summer’s morning to write out the invitations to her 80th birthday, she knows that what she will reveal that day will possibly ruin the perfect family idyll she and her husband David have spent over 50 years building…

But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can’t live a lie any more.
The invitation goes out far and wide, calling her three children and their families back home to Winterfold, their rambling house in the heart of the English countryside. They are Bill, the doctor; Florence, the eccentric academic; and Daisy…the child who never fit in. As the story unfolds, each character reveals their own secrets, joys, and tragedies they are wrestling with through.