When their estranged father dies, three half-siblings inherit his house – and one another.

Ryan has never met the man Michelle calls Dad.  Fred knew him well enough to be angry.  Michelle knew him longest, which may be the cruelest inheritance of all.  Brought together in the damp quiet of the Pacific Northwest, the siblings arrive expecting chores, paperwork, and the awkward etiquette of grieving someone who failed them in different directions.

What they find instead is a house full of evidence: old photographs, unfinished projects, private rooms, family myths, and objects that refuse to stay harmless.  Over one long, uncomfortable week, old wounds resurface, secrets reveal themselves, and the three are forced to decide whether they will keep repeating the pattern of disappointment or attempt something stranger, riskier, and possibly more useful.

Sharp, tender, and wryly observant, The Field of Furze is a darkly comic novel about inheritance, abandonment, grief, and the absurd ways people become family after the person who connected them has run out of ways to disappoint them.  It is a story about what we are given, what we are left to clean up, and what might still survive in the wreckage.