Two mothers at war with the elements. And each other...
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'Poetry in prose. Astutely observed' Fiona Erskine
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]**]**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.