Cousins
Salley Vicker
Will Tye, a gifted scholar, falls from a Cambridge college spire during a night climb. As he lies critically injured in hospital, three generations of Will’s devastated family – his 16-year-old sister Hetta, Betsy, his spirited grandmother, and his Aunt Bell – begin to uncover long-buried family secrets and so unravel a tangled web of loves and losses.
Hetta, first of the three narrators, discovers a book called The Night Climbers of Cambridge in Will’s room. Among this daredevil band was Will’s uncle Nat, born in the Second World War to a Jewish mother whose own troubled story comes to light through Betsy, who adopted him as an infant.