After Before

‘Rich haunted gripping painful and beautifully entwined’ Ruth Padel‘A powerful novel. Its characters will haunt you long after their stories have been told’ Naomi GrynThat was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If one is found at least the other survivesDuring a cold British winter three women reach crisis point. Emily an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide is existing but not living. Vera a newly Christian Londoner is striving to live a moral life her happiness constantly undermined by secrets from her past. Lynn battling with an untimely disease is consumed by bitterness and resentment of what she hasn’t achieved and what has been snatched from her.Each suffering their own demons their lives have been torn open by betrayal: by other people by themselves by life itself. But as their paths interweave they begin to unravel their beleaguered pasts and inadvertently change each other’s futures.