A charming old farmhouse in the French countryside with a loving musician husband, chef wife, and new daughter seems like the start of a whimsical romp, does it not? If only. Anna and her husband ...

Shah’s debut gets off to a slow start, but patient readers will be rewarded by this richly textured drama. Londoners Anna and Tobias’s daughter Freya is born with cerebral palsy, greatly complicating ...