A "beautifully written, heartbreaking" (S. J. Watson) debut novel
about a gifted boy who discovers the truth about his past, his
overprotective single mother who tries desperately to shield him from
it, and the father he has never met who has unexpectedly returned.
"Original, compassionate, cleverly plotted, and genuinely difficult to
put down." -Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The
Rosie Project
Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe, an exceptionally talented boy obsessed
with physics and astronomy, has been raised alone by his mother in
Sydney, Australia. Claire, a former professional ballerina, has been a
wonderful parent to Ethan, but he's becoming increasingly curious about
his father's absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her
talented, vulnerable son--and of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls
ill, tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy, her
tightly-held world is split open.
Thousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia, Mark is
trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart, but an
unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When
Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire, he unleashes
long-suppressed forces that--like gravity--pull the three together
again, testing the limits of love and forgiveness.
Told from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his
parents, Relativity is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of
unbreakable bonds, irreversible acts, the limits of science, and the
magnitude of love.
