In the Blink of an Eye

Absolutely captivating....This is a masterpiece of women''s fiction.—Booklist (starred review)Absorbing....Fast-moving but emotionally resonant. —Kirkus reviews In the Blink of an Eye is award-winning author Jesse Blackadder''s deeply emotional drama that explores a family''s path to forgiveness and redemption in the aftermath of a tragedy.The Brennans—parents Finn and Bridget and their sons Jarrah and Toby—have made a sea change from chilly Hobart Tasmania to subtropical Murwillumbah New South Wales. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf they''re still adjusting to work school and life in a sprawling purple clapboard house when one morning tragedy strikes the devastating aftermath the questions fly. What really happened? And who''s to blame? Determined to protect his family Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah—his innocence lost—faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain the Blink of an Eye is a haunting redemptive story about forgiveness and hope.