All the Things We Buried

Thirty years ago, Iris Lennox fled her family farm, a place of both tenderness and rage, leaving behind her devout mother, beloved father, and younger brother, Benjamin. But when she learns of her father’s tragic death, she is forced to return home. While there, confronted with a series of mysterious coincidences, Iris becomes convinced his death was no accident.
 
With their mother safely confined to a nursing home, and Iris presumed to be out of the picture, it seems a foregone conclusion that Benjamin will inherit the priceless land. That is, until the family lawyer reveals that their father mysteriously altered his will the day before his death, leaving everything to Iris. More mysteriously still, the will is now missing. Could Iris’s own brother, once her close confidant, be capable of murder?
 
Meanwhile, Benjamin is living with a buried secret, discovered decades earlier in his childhood—one that has found its way back through the soil, promising to germinate in the present day and expose more than one member of the Lennox family for who they really are.

• “A story of rural secrets, haunted lives, and bitter sibling rivalry that will stay with you long after the last page.”
  Ian Rankin, New York Times-bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus series
• "It's full of yearning and repression, humor, and Scottish countryside deliciousness, deeply felt emotion and vivid mood and setting. Sheena shows how funny and sad ordinary life often is. She writes brilliantly about love, longing, and village gossip."
  Curtis Sittenfeld, New York Times-bestselling author of Romantic Comedy and Prep
• "Sheena writes beautifully about place, setting, emotion, and what’s going on in the silence between people. It’s full of intelligence, humor, and sparkling charm."
  Meg Wolitzer, New York Times-bestselling author of The Interestings and The Female Persuasion
• “The characters are wonderful, the pacing is glorious, the people are so real, and the issues at hand so touching and smart and true.”
  Susan Scarf Merrell, author of Shirley and The Accidental Bond
• "Rural Scotland full of familial dysfunction and shocking sibling rivalry—a tale that asks stark questions about identity and belonging, told through deeply lyrical prose."
  Henry Sutton, author of My Criminal World
• "An originally crafted timeless story from a really talented writer."
  Louise Welsh, author of The Cutting Room
• “A touching story asking, What is home? Do you carry it inside you, or is it the people who have gone? Every line has a beautiful image that sings”
  Zoë Strachan, author of Catch the Moments As They Fly