The Home Scar: from the Womens Prize-longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky

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The deft and thought-provoking follow-up to Women's Prize longlisted 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.

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Picks at the wounds only a mother can inflict . . . ambitious . . . intricate * Sunday Independent *
Wonderful -- Brendan O'Connor
Such a treat . . . another stunner from Kathleen MacMahon -- Henrietta McKervey
Thoughtful, understated . . . it has a quiet power * Irish Independent *
With her usual effortless writing style and ability to make characters pop off the page, [The Home Scar] is a moving read * Woman's Way *

Author Bio

The Home Scar is Kathleen MacMahon's fourth novel. Her debut, This is How it Ends, was translated into more than twenty languages, spent five weeks at the top of the bestseller lists in Ireland, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice in the UK. It was followed by The Long, Hot Summer, also a bestseller in Ireland, and Nothing But Blue Sky, which was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021. Kathleen is a former radio and television journalist with Ireland's national broadcaster, RT , and she lives in Dublin with her family.