Trouble Was

It is 1976, and nine-year-old Frank Dart dreams of his absent father while making sure his mum has enough cigarettes for the long drive to their new home in North Devon. At Aunt Perry’s house, Frank and his sister must make sense of their cousins’ hostility, their mother’s increasing distance, and a house haunted by secrets. A “powerfully evocative” coming-of-age novel set in the dying dreams of the 1970s, from an award-winning journalist.