And the Dark Sacred Night by Julia Glass, author of Three Junes, brings back characters we first met in her earlier books.

Here we read about Kit Noonan, a father in his early 40’s at a crossroads in his life. Having just lost his job, and struggling with his marriage, his wife forces him to look for his unknown father, believing that you can never really know who you are if you dont know where you came from.

This sets Kit on a journey to his adopted father’s home who he hasn’t seen in years, and from there, to visit grandparents he didn’t know he had.

Glass writes with great emotional insight, and makes the reader question what it really means to be a family. The characters are fully drawn and I cared about what would happen to each of them. A deeply compelling novel.