Oystercatchers

<p>The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher author of the award-winning ‘Eve Green’</p> <p>Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister Moira comes to her in the evenings sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Here Moira confesses. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dramatic Welsh coast that had dominated and captivated her childhood; to her savagery at boarding school; to the wild bitter and destructive heart that she carried into her adult life. Moira knows this: that she's been a poor daughter and a deceptive wife. But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the real truth: she's been a cruel sister and it is this cruelty that has led them both here to this hospital bed.</p> <p>A novel about trust loss and loneliness ‘Oystercatchers’ is a love story with a profound darkness at its core.</p>