The Hope Fault

<p>Iris's family - her ex-husband with his new wife and baby; her son and her best friend's daughter - gather to pack up their holiday house. They are there for one last time one last weekend and one last party - but in the course of this weekend their connections will be affirmed and their frailties and secrets revealed - to the reader at least if not to each other.</p><p></p><p><em>The Hope Fault </em>is a novel about extended family: about steps and exes and fairy godmothers; about parents and partners who are missing and the people who replace them.</p>