The insufferable Bert is still causing trouble at the Horrobins’ - Tracy isn’t the only one who wishes he went back to being silent.
Another cantankerous, yet more sympathetic, character, Carol, is pushing Leonard to use the diplomatic skills of Kofi Annan as he navigates Tregorran familial tensions.
Brad struggles to work out whether renewed interest from Den can be trusted and Adam steels himself for the Home Farm partnership meeting, where long suppressed resentments erupt and the future is thrown into uncertainty.
“Familial”? In this context, the writer means “between the only two living members of this human family”.
But that is not what familial means. It means " of, relating to, or characteristic of a family", or “appearing in individuals by heredity”, or even “appearing in a group of people or things that are related by common characteristics, features, or properties”, and has been used about the trees at Chernobyl among other groups with common features.
I wish people would stop using a random word that sounds a little like what they mean; in this case, for “familial” read “family”, or better yet “mother and daughter”, since that is the only Tregorran family that seems to exist.