Patrick Brady is a man in pieces.

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Sixteen months after losing his wife Teresa, he finds himself living at Treetops — a supported housing scheme in South Wales — working as a key worker for the very residents he now shares walls with. It's a means to an end. It won't be long, he tells himself, before he's ready to be independent again.

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But Treetops is not a quiet place to grieve. There's Jason, nineteen years old and raised by a system that never quite caught him. There's Charles, fighting addiction and something darker. Wayne, a reclusive genius with theories about code and reality that blur at the edges. And Abby, fragile and talented, carrying secrets that reach far beyond Treetops.

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Through Patrick's eyes, we navigate grief, injustice, mental health, and moral ambiguity. He is funny, perceptive, principled — and utterly unreliable. Because Patrick's version of events is not quite the full picture.​