Description
Book Synopsis''Vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted' - Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater
''A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent'' - Joseph O''Connor, author of Shadowplay
Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it.
A young woman learns to wield her power, leaving casualties in her wake, while a man from a small town finds solace in a strange new hobby. A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world.
First-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet r
