“The Settle House is load bearing. Here is what it bears: Mum’s endless sadness, September’s fitful wrath, my quiet failure to ever do quite what anyone needs me to do, the seasons, the death of small animals in the scrublands around it, every word that we say in love or anger to one another.”

“The Settle House is load bearing. Here is what it bears: Mum’s endless sadness, September’s fitful wrath, my quiet failure to ever do quite what anyone needs me to do, the seasons, the death of small animals in the scrublands around it, every word that we say in love or anger to one another.”

— Daisy Johnson