A deeply moving debut novel about a couple's struggle to love and accept their disabled child and keep their family together.Anna is a planner. So when she discovers she's pregnant, she prepares for a perfect new life in Provençe, France, with her perfect new baby-to-be. Anna's partner, the easy-going Tobias, shouldn't have too much difficulty tagging along--after all, he's a musician who rarely starts his day before noon. But all that changes when their baby is born severely disabled. Anna, Tobias, and their daughter, Freya, end up in a rickety, rodent-infested farmhouse in a remote town in France--far from the mansion in Provençe they had imagined. Little do they know that this is the beginning of what will become an incredible journey of the heart--one during which they learn there really is no such thing as a mouse-proof kitchen. Life is messy, and it's the messy bits that make it count. ways.