Jo Summerscales

Sunny talkaholic Pip doesn’t know which is worse; to be entirely invisible or seen but not noticed. She also can’t remember when it started, just that she can’t get rid of the damned thing. Not so much an elephant in the room as one that follows her every move like a crazed stalker whenever she leaves the bloody house. It takes seven-year-old Alice to see what’s so clearly in front of her.

The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.