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The Home Scar
- Author
- Kathleen MacMahon
- Narrator
- Beau Holland
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publish Date
- 9 February 2023
- Run Time
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky
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.
"MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" - Claire Fuller
©2023 Kathleen MacMahon (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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A powerful story about legacy and loss and the possibility of reconciliation
Irish Times
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Her beautifully simple style belies psychological complexity . . . and her tone is wryly accepting
Big Issue
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Quiet and bleakly beautiful . . . like the siblings and Ireland, it will leave a permanent mark on those who venture into its depths
Buzz
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Picks at the wounds only a mother can inflict . . . ambitious . . . intricate
Sunday Independent
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An exceptional novel about a brother and sister returning to the west of Ireland and to a summer of their past.
Sunday Independent
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MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page . . . subtle and authentic
Claire Fuller
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Thoughtful, understated . . . it has a quiet power
Irish Independent
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Wonderful
RTÉ
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A gorgeous story of sibling love. It reads like a psychological adventure story into memory
Louise Nealon
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A spell-binding story of inherited grief and the unbreakable bond between siblings as they unpick memories of their shared past . . . [MacMahon's] characters feel authentic and relatable for all their flaws
Aingeala Flannery
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Details
- Author
- Kathleen MacMahon
- Narrator
- Beau Holland
- Duration
- 10 hours 57 minutes
- Release Date
- 9 February 2023
- ISBN
- 9780241998922
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Genre
- Family life fiction / Stories about family, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.From the Women's Prize longlisted author of Nothing But Blue SkyOn 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."MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" - Claire Fuller©2023 Kathleen MacMahon (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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