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The Home Scar

By: Kathleen MacMahon
Narrated by: Beau Holland
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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

 Family Life Fiction Genre Fiction Sea Adventures Small Town & Rural Adventure

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Critic reviews

An exceptional novel about a brother and sister returning to the west of Ireland and to a summer of their past. (Anne Griffin)
MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page . . . subtle and authentic (Claire Fuller)
Wonderful (Brendan O'Connor)
A gorgeous story of sibling love. It reads like a psychological adventure story into memory (Louise Nealon)
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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Happy to read and listen to this book. I think it does well at showing how memory is not reliable, how our future is shaped by our past., The book is clear in giving facts about the characters, the landscape is wonderfully described. The character interactions I am not confident about., each as stand alone have strength, but all pulled together it’s a bit too comfortable.,

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