Little Ruins

A WATERSTONES 'BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2025'
AN iPAPER BEST NEW BOOK OUT IN AUGUST 2025

'Beautifully written and deeply moving' CLARE BALDING
'An important voice' CATHY RENTZENBRINK
'I devoured it in a day . . . An open-hearted book' CLOVER STROUD

Looking to begin a new chapter for their unconventional family of three, Jack, Manni and his youngest brother, Reuben, buy a crumbling but beautiful 150-year-old farmstead tucked into a remote valley in Andalusia, surrounded by olive trees.

While their secluded hilltop village offers community and fellowship, soon visitors arrive across the river: most are good, some bad, one tragic. Forced to confront his own hidden childhood scars, Manni finds that the foundations of their new life together are at risk of collapse. In Little Ruins, what begins as an ode to Southern Spain gradually transforms into a heart-mending exploration of human connection, nature's gifts and the power of love in all its forms.