The Rawlings men have always known how the farm would pass down: eldest son, whole estate, the way it's gone for three generations. Betty knew it too. She simply didn't agree.

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After she dies,  there is a quiet redrawing of a family's entire understanding of itself, filed away years before anyone thought to look. No explanation. No warning. 

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In the wreckage of that discovery, Graham has to decide what he's willing to know and what he's willing to do about it. Fran and Tom, circling each other since before either of them can properly remember why, are running out of reasons to keep circling. And somewhere underneath all of it sits a truth about Betty's death that only one person in the family isn't asking about.

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Set across the fields and farmhouses of West Sussex, Primogeniture is a novel about what gets inherited when nobody says it out loud - land, silence, and the things a mother chooses to leave unequal in order, finally, to make them fair.