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Albion A Novel Anna Hope Paperback FICTION/Family Life / Siblings “Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape, and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender.”—Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace  A propulsive and nuanced story of family, inheritance, and accountability that shakes the country house novel to its foundations. The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home to bury their patriarch, Philip, the blinding sun around which the family has always orbited. Eldest daughter Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature; a last line of defense against the coming climate catastrophe. Her brother, Milo, envisions a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing and are set on a collision course with the other. Isa, Philip’s estranged youngest child, hopes to reconnect with her childhood love who still lives on the estate, to find answers about her troubled marriage, while Clara, arriving from America and shrouded in secrets, bears a truth that will fracture all the dreams upon which they’ve built their lives.