There is a heatwave across Europe. Goose and his three sisters gather at the family’s house by Lake Orta, in Piedmont, the tiny island of Northern Italy,  in the wake of their artist father’s  sudden death. The accidental drowning is further complicated byhis recent and hasty marriage to the elusive Bella-Mae and the absence of both a will and his much talked-of work in progress, the painting is missing. The agonising struggle to find a place for grief in an already fragile network of intimate relationships. Although the siblings have always been close, as they search for answers over that summer, the … Continue reading Father’s legacy

In the aftermath of the Second World War Private Joseph Caan, a young Jewish soldier stationed in Germany, seeks the truth about lost family members: in 1960s a father focuses on his daughter’s wedding even as the Cuban Missile Crisis brings the world to the brink of disaster; in 2001, while planes fly into the Twin Towers, a maid working for US Embassy staff in London wonders If her birth on the day of the Kennedy assassination shaped her life; and at the height of a pandemic lockdown, Dr. Cole, a retired specialist in respiratory disease, returns to work and … Continue reading Human Interest and mystery

“Peace be with all of you” 267th pontiff, Robert Prevost, known as Pope Leo XIV, tells huge crowds gathered at the Vatican after becoming the first American pontiff to be elected leader of Catholic Church. Prevost, 69, Chicago-born, seen as a reformer and worked for many years as a missionary in Peru before being made an archbishop there. 113 cardinals gathered in the Vatican elected Prevost as the new leader of the Catholic Church. Pope Leo XIV’s choice of name signals a commitment to social justice which is very much in line with the late Pope Francis’ global ministry. Peruvians were … Continue reading Robert Prevost becomes first American Pope