Green grass

Laura Sale has come to feel invisible in her own life. In North London she lives with her thirteen-year-old twins, Dolly and Fred, and their father, Inigo. He is fascinating but absurdly demanding, and Laura also manages the career of Britain's most successful conceptual artist, which is his. Home life feels relentless, and the work is frustrating and unrewarding. She has started to ask herself what she actually enjoys, what makes her laugh, and whether a passionate life is slipping past her.

A chance meeting with Guy, the man she nearly married twenty years earlier, gives her the push she needs. Change arrives in unexpected forms. Laura ends up in rural Norfolk, where she spent childhood holidays, facing old ghosts, a collapsing relationship, some ferrets and a goat.

As she begins to enjoy the space she has longed for, a new stage of her life opens up, with its own surprises, demons and pleasures. Taking charge of her own future, Laura finds it full of possibility.