When He Was Still Young

He's a raconteur of rivers and roads, a man who has packed a Range Rover with wine and flown across oceans to chase trout and solitude. But home is where the unglamorous reckonings happen: a hospital room, a screened-in porch, a lover who announces she's leaving. Faced with betrayal, sudden illness in a friend, and the unraveling of rituals that once anchored him, Bart must decide what to fight for-and what to let go.

From the ragged edges of Cool Spring Farm to the grand salons of Victoria ...