Water

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Author: Boyne John
ISBN: 9780857529817
Publication Date: 07/11/2023

The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.

But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes?

Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did – and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.

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"A deeply harrowing personal journey of grief as Vanessa Carvin moves forward by re-inventing herself, as 'tomorrow she will wake up and start again'. This is the first instalment of John Boyne's Elements Quartet; Water, Earth, Fire and Air. These interconnected novellas explore different aspects of abuse through various perspectives."
Andy