The Mushroom Man

Here, much to everyone's delight, is Sophie Powell's debut. Charlotte and Beth are sisters whose lives have turned out very differently. Charlotte lives in London with her successful husband and six-year-old daughter Lily, who naturally gets the best of everything. Beth is a young widow, living on her late husband's farm in Wales with a teenaged son, eleven-year-old triplet daughters, a vegetable patch and a henhouse.

For years, Charlotte refused to visit this place, where there was practically guaranteed to be dirt. This summer she has relented--and all of their lives are about to be turned upside-down.