Description
Coolly and compellingly narrated by a man dedicated to the examination of other people’s pasts and the reconstruction of their lives, this is a brilliant, dark and gripping new NOVEL that surpasses even Hart’s masterpiece, Damage. A psychiatrist, Jack is divorced. His own past and that of his beautiful, enigmatic sister Kate certainly bear scrutiny.
Then he gets a phone call telling him that their family house in Ireland is for sale – and when he finally returns to the house, terrible truths emerge about what happened there years ago in a family tragedy that left indelible marks on those who survived it. The facts have been reconstructed many times, but the shocking truth has not.
‘This is a wonderful book, brilliantly told. There’s so much to recommend – Hart’s spare, knowing, magnetic prose, her psychological veracity…her distinctively Irish gift for fluently reeling you into the heart of the story…A masterpiece’ Sunday Independent
‘A wonderful pot-pourri… the dramatic plot with its underlying eroticism gives it the readability of a thriller’ Sunday Express
“I was moved, even shaken, by the passion of Hart’s novel. She has a boldness and challenge unique among her contemporaries‘ Melvyn Baker, Daily Mail
“A great novel…beautifully written by this increasingly sure footed author’ Kenneth Baker, Daily Mail
‘The bleaker shores of family life, explored to such devastating effect in Damage are retuned to. A compelling work – there is a sparseness to Hart’s writing that is admirable’ The Times
Soft cover, 218 pages. In good to very good preloved condition.