The Home Scar

Brought to you by Penguin.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.Praise for Nothing But Blue Sky''A piece of perfection . . . the best book I''ve read all year'' Irish Examiner''Touching and enthralling'' Sunday Times''What a beautiful novel . . . Elegant, understated, subtly powerful and rings so perfectly true'' Donal Ryan©2023 Kathleen MacMahon (P)2023 Penguin Audio