Two mothers at war with the elements. And each other...
SHORTLISTED
FOR THE PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE ‘A mystery with heart and soul. Highly
recommended’ Frances Quinn
Rachel, a trainee vicar struggling to bond with her flock in the coastal town of Holthorpe, learns the terrifying power of the North Sea when her six-year-old daughter goes missing on the beach.
Meanwhile Mary, a defiant and distrustful loner, is fighting her own battle against nature as the crumbling Norfolk shoreline brings her clifftop home ever closer to destruction.
Both scarred by life, the two women are drawn into an unlikely friendship, but Mary's misfit son Adam is nursing a secret. For Rachel, it will subject her battered faith to its greatest test: will she be strong enough to forgive?
In her taut, lyrical debut novel, Hilary Taylor weaves the bleak power of the East Anglian winter into a searingly honest psychological drama, as gripping as any thriller.
- ISBN13 9781785633355
- Publish Date 12 January 2023
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Eye Books
- Imprint Lightning Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 323
- Language English