Daughters Of The Labyrinth Ruth Padel

Corsair £18.99

Hit by the doublewhammy of Brexit and the death of her English husband, a Cretan artist returns from London to the island of her birth. But her Greek roots prove far more tangled than she had realised: her mother has spent years concealing her Jewish heritage, along with the fact that she had a younger sister. Padel has produced a slow-burner of a novel but the writing is both lyrical and psychologically astute.