'A vivid, immersive, historical saga from beloved author Suzanne McCourt.
'Brothers Henryk and Adam Radecki’s relationship is one of fraught love and jealously. Henryk, unhappily married, becomes a rich and successful industrialist, while Adi, a devoted vet, finds and loses love. Their bond is tested throughout their lives, from the 1920s, against the background of Poland’s tragic and tumultuous relationship with Russia, until 1954 in the Snowy Mountains of Australia.
'Family secrets constantly threaten to pull their lives apart, as Adi’s wife Ela and son Stefan provide a dramatic twist to this riveting tale. Caught up in momentous events, McCourt’s characters reveal the power of the moral choices we make in our lives.
'Beautifully written, full of the detail of everyday life, its joys and suffering, The Tulip Tree is engrossing historical fiction at its very best, a profoundly moving story of love, sacrifice and loyalty.' (Publication summary)
Epigraph :
"We've inherited hope-
The gift of forgetting.
You'll see how we give
birth among the ruins."
-Wistawa Szymborska, Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition, 1957
