Ada Whitlock
The Salt Orchard
Every autumn the Hallorans pick the orchard their father planted too close to the sea. This year the trees bear nothing, and the three sisters who come home to find out why have not spoken in eleven years.
About Ada Whitlock
Novels about small towns, long marriages and the things families decide never to say.
Ada Whitlock writes quiet novels about loud feelings. She grew up above her grandmother's haberdashery on the Yorkshire coast and still writes the first draft of everything by hand, at the same kitchen table.
Her books have been called "patient, exact and quietly devastating". She is working on a fourth.