The heart-stopping story of brothers reunited by the death of their troubled father, set in a house high in the Italian Alps - from the author of the international bestseller The Eight Mountains
Fredo and Luigi grew up in Valsesia, in northern Italy. Their father planted trees for them when they were born- for Luigi, a larch, which looks towards the sun and waves in the wind; for Fredo, a pine, which flourishes only in the shade.
Since the death of their father, all the two brothers have had in common is their heavy drinking and the old family home, high up on the mountain. Luigi would like to buy Fredo out, to start a new life with Betta and the baby girl they are expecting. But in this remote and testing landscape, one drink too many, one wrong word, can turn dogs into wolves.
