Amanda Brookfield

The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house. This year however, outside realities are pressing hard; Pamela and John, married for four decades, know that time is catching up with them. And trouble is brewing in the lives of their four children.

For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime. The Harrisons were always a close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world.

Newly divorced twenty years after a passionate courtship and marriage, Esther's and Lucas's lives are veering off course, as are the inner worlds of their two grown-up children. But can a family ever really be sliced in two?