Come Sunday: A Novel

WINNER OF THE JANET HEIDINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION . FINALIST FOR THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE. Abbe is a restless young mother living on the outskirts of Honolulu with her husband Greg the pastor at a small church. Their lives are suddenly riven by tragedy when their three-year-old daughter Cleo is struck and killed by car. As Greg turns to God and community for comfort Abbe turns inward and reflects upon her own troubled past. Isla Morley brilliantly weaves the story of Abbes grief with a gripping tale of her tempestuous childhood in apartheid South Africa---and how Abbes father a villainous drunk held her family hostage for decades with his rage until they finally began to plot their escape from him. Come Sunday is a spellbinding drama about a woman breaking free of her grief and of her past and what it takes to revive hope when all seems lost.