Primogeniture, (Paperback)

<p>When Betty Rawlings changes her will, she tells no one. Three weeks later she is found at the bottom of her attic ladder. The coroner records the death as accidental. The matter is closed.</p><p>It is not closed for Fran.</p><p>Fran is a paediatric nurse. She has spent fourteen years reading what bodies say and twelve years of marriage learning not to say what she reads. She kneels beside Betty before she has put her bag down. She looks. She knows.</p><p>What she does about it - and what it costs her, and what it finally produces - is the whole of this novel.</p><p>Set in the English countryside across three generations of a family that has been quietly catastrophic to its own members for longer than anyone has cared to name, Primogeniture is a novel about inheritance in every sense. About who holds power in families and how they hold it. About the particular loneliness of a good marriage gone wrong. About a woman who kept geraniums on a staggered schedule so there would always be something in bloom, who kept a list in the bureau with a copy made, and who trusted - with the patience of someone who understood that the things you tend will do what they were tended to do - that justice would find its way.</p><p>It does.</p>

• Primogeniture, (Paperback)
• Author: Caitlin Sherlock
• ISBN: 9798257031571
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-04-12
• Page Count: 274