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.