The Home Scar
The Home Scar From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.''Wait, they leave the rock?'…
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The Home Scar
From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.''Wait, they leave the rock?' 'Of course. On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past.When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines, they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer, the last before their mother died. How else would they survive?
the best book I've read all year' Irish Examiner'Touching and enthralling' Sunday Times'What a beautiful novel . . . But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer - one that had tragic consequences.Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake, Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and - ready or not - to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them.The Home Scar is a luminous and precise story about the inheritance of loss and the possibility of finally making peace with it.Praise for Nothing But Blue Sky'A piece of perfection . . . Elegant, understated, subtly powerful and rings so perfectly true' Donal Ryan