A Rooted Sorrow — P.M. Hubbard

Mike Hurst, tormented by events that happened five years ago, returns to the cottage he still owns and the location of past revelations.

The place hasn't changed, but the people have, and he finds himself involved in a fresh net of personal discoveries, all rooted in the past and bedevilled by it, but all making it more difficult for him to find the solution he has come back to seek ...

'This is a haunting novel for the thoughtful reader by one of Britain's most gifted storytellers' Chicago Tribune