Loved reading this Penelope Lively novel first published in 1977 - very quiet and thoughtful - about an “ordinary” woman around 40, driving to and from her family home in Cuxing to her childhood home in Lichfield to visit her dying father and sort out his affairs. Revisiting the past brings her to question her own life and the compromises she has made. Set in the early 70s the ways in which it feels dated are interesting too.