The narration in this book switches constantly, from person to person to fig tree; that last narrator almost made me put down the book, because it felt so contrived and twee. But if you can get over being given occasional ecology lectures from a tree, the story underneath is about immigration and loss, and how people adapt when being transplanted (both literally and figuratively) into a foreign land. In this case it’s about people immigrating to England from Cyprus (or choosing to stay) during the 1960s crisis, and how they deal with the pain that they bring with them.