The brilliant and incisive new novel from the author of Lives Like Mine... A deeply affecting novel, In Blooms tells of strength, survival, forgiveness, resilience and determination, and the fierce love and unbreakable bonds between mothers and daughters. Ever since Sol's untimely death left her pregnant and alone at twenty-four, Delph's kept herself small as a form of self-protection.

Now, over a decade later, she lives with their daughter Roche and her new partner Itsy, a kind and protective cabbie, on the fourteenth floor of Esplanade Point on the Essex coast. But Delph's protective bubble bursts when Roche moves in with her estranged nan, Moon. Feeling on the outside of the bond between her fierce-yet-flaky tarot-reading mother and volatile martial-arts-champion daughter, Delph begins questioning her own freedom.

And when Roche's snooping into her grandmother's past unearths a familial line of downtrodden women; a worrying pattern emerges. Has keeping small and safe truly been Delph's choice all these years...?