Water / John Boyne.
Material type: TextPublisher: London : Doubleday, an imprint of Transworld, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 165 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780857529817; 9780857529800Subject(s): Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Scandals -- Fiction | Child molesters -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Islands -- Ireland -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Psychological fiction. | Social problem fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all.
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