Beautiful character studies, if you're into that kind of thing
We meet this perfectly ordinary family, whose members are all likable, busy, and warm but with some secrets and regrets rattling around in their midst--when the family's three siblings discover a body in a field on their walk home from school. Together they spot a savagely stabbed boy bleeding to death, but they get help and save the boy's life. The remainder of the novel is how this traumatizing experience influences the siblings' behaviors. The oldest boy becomes obsessed with finding out who the attempted killer is. The 16-year-old middle child, the only girl, becomes obsessed with seducing a young adult man she meets in the city. And the youngest child, the only one who is adopted, becomes interested in finding his biological mother. Within and around the children, their parents grapple with their own problems, unaware of how much the children know about what is really going on. I loved the children, especially artistic Duncan and his ESP relationship with his dog, Lill