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.
How else would they survive? 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. 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. _________ 'Subtle and
authentic' Claire Fuller 'A gorgeous story of sibling love. I
thoroughly enjoyed following Cassie and Christo's quest to discover
the tangled roots of a past that binds them together' Louise Nealon
'Kathleen MacMahon's subject is memory itself: how we remember -
and the impact upon our future lives when our memories deceive us.
Compassionate and poignant, The Home Scar is a work of considerable
moral power' Neil Hegarty 'A very grown-up novel about life and
love, of course, and above all, the repercussions of a disrupted
childhood . . . a real tour de force' Christine Dwyer Hickey
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