Come Sunday - Couverture souple

Morley, Isla

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0340976519 ISBN 13 : 9780340976517

Editeur : Two Roads, 2010

Synopsis

Isla Morley's debut novel plays into one of our largest fears: what happens when a child is killed.

Abbe Deighton has lost her bearings.

Once a child of South Africa and now settled in Hawaii married to a minister, she is chafing against the expectations of her life, her husband's congregation, her marriage and the constant demands of motherhood.

But in an instant, beginning with the skid of tyres, Abbe's life is transformed when her three-year-old daughter is killed, triggering a seismic grief that cuts a swathe through the landscape of her life. Clawing its way through the strata of grief comes the memory of another tragedy, one that has been tucked away for twenty years. If Abbe is to find a way through blame and guilt and find redemption she must confront the last summer of her youth.

It is a journey that will take her back to the continent of her childhood bringing her face-to-face with her past, to the old witchdoctor's hut where curses were cast, secrets kept and a crime concealed. Abbe will have to make the harshest of choices, choices which blur the lines of life and death, responsibility and forgiveness, murder and self-defence, in order to find her true homeland.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Isla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid. Now in the Los Angeles area, she shares a home with her husband, daughter, a cat, two dogs and four tortoises. Come Sunday, her debut novel, was awarded the Janet Heidinger Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize and was longlisted for the Sunday Times Literary Award.

www.islamorley.com
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Two Roads
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0340976519
• ISBN 13: 9780340976517
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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