Polly Clark — Larchfield

Riverrun 2018 Paperback, 320pp. It's early summer when a young poet, Dora Fielding, moves to Helensburgh on the west coast of Scotland and her hopes are first challenged. Newly married, pregnant, she's excited by the prospect of a life that combines family and creativity. She thinks she knows what being a person, a wife, a mother, means. She is soon shown that she is wrong. Owner's Name inside. (ISBN: 9781786481955). Good.