The story gets under your skin and will live on long after the final page has been turned.' - Gisborne Herald (New Zealand) 'Linda Olsson writes beautifully, capturing the fragile nature of her characters and the beauty of the rugged landscape around her with great precision and subtlety. 'Haunting and beautiful, is a reminder of the fragility of happiness and the impossibility of living without hope.' - Otago Times (New Zealand) “Exquisitely rendered.quietly gripping.”- Cleveland Plain Dealer Durrow will appreciate this darkly emotional novel.”- Booklist “ deeply poetic novel.and a credit to Olsson’s narrative technique.Fans of Jennifer Haigh and Heidi W. “Olsson’s eloquent prose offers an intimate, poignant portrait of a woman at midlife who finds her way back.to a life filled with love.”- Publishers Weekly 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. Olsson expertly interweaves scenes from Marion’s past with her quest to save Ika from his own tragic childhood, and renders with reflective tenderness the fragility of memory and the healing power of the heart. Perhaps she’ll be able to find forgiveness for the little girl that was her. Perhaps if she can create order from the chaos, her memories will be easier to carry. Seized by a sudden urgency to make sense of her past, she examines each image one-by-one: her grandfather, her mother, her brother, her lover. But a chance meeting with a young boy, Ika, and her desire to help him force Marion to open the Pandora’s box of her memory. Marion Flint, in her early fifties, has spent fifteen years living a quiet life on the rugged coast of New Zealand, a life that allows the door to her past to remain firmly shut. Here is Olsson doing what she does best: illuminating the terrain of friendship and examining the many forms that love can take. From the beloved author of Astrid & Veronika, a moving tale of friendship and redemptionįans of Astrid & Veronika and Chris Cleave's Little Bee will be thrilled to read Linda Olsson's third novel.

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