A Good House

Bill Chambers has come home from the Second World War with several fingers of his right hand missing but with the will to restore his family life intact. He wants the best for his wife and children, and the future seems to stretch out before him. Yet as that future takes hold, generations pull apart and come together again, bonds deepen and widen, and love creates its own snares. In this rich portrait of a small-town family, Bonnie Burnard has created people we can all recognize, and a story that is as moving as it is profound.