Le richissime Philip Brooke vient de mourir, laissant derrière lui un patrimoine grandiose : le plus beau manoir du Sussex, datant du XVIIIᵉ siècle et comprenant pas moins d'une vingtaine de chambres, entouré d'un domaine luxuriant de centaines d'hectares. Mari volage et père absent, il n'est regretté ni de sa femme ni de ses trois enfants. En revanche, sa vaste fortune déclenche des conflits galopants dans la famille car chacun veut mettre la main sur cette succession hors norme. Le clan Brooke réussira-t-il à ne pas voler en éclats avant le jour de l'enterrement ? Drame familial haut en couleur et en tensions, Nos héritages nous plonge dans les arcanes fascinants d'une famille d'aristocrates britanniques tiraillée par l'argent et les secrets du passé.

The Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember. Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other. Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage. And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they ve built their lives.