The Home Scar

<p><i>'The home scar - that's what they call the mark limpets make on the rock when they return.'</i><br><br><i>'Wait they leave the rock?'</i><br><br><i>'Of course. How else would they survive?</i><br><br>On opposite sides of the world half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work intent on ignoring their painful past.<br><br>When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer - one that had tragic consequences.<br><br>Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and - ready or not - to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them.<br><br><i>The Home Scar</i> is a luminous and precise story about the inheritance of loss and the possibility of finally making peace with it.<br>_________<br><br>'A powerful story about legacy and loss and the possibility of reconciliation' <b><i>Irish Times</i></b><br><br>'Her beautifully simple style belies psychological complexity . . . and her tone is wryly accepting' <i><b>Big Issue</b></i><br><br>'Subtle and authentic' <b>Claire Fuller</b><br><br>'A gorgeous story of sibling love. I thoroughly enjoyed following Cassie and Christo's quest to discover the tangled roots of a past that binds them together' <b>Louise Nealon</b><br><br>'Kathleen MacMahon's subject is memory itself: how we remember - and the impact upon our future lives when our memories deceive us. Compassionate and poignant <i>The Home Scar</i> is a work of considerable moral power' <b>Neil Hegarty</b><br><br>'An exceptional novel by one of Ireland's foremost literary talents. A book not to be missed' <b>Anne Griffin</b><br><br>'A very grown-up novel about life and love of course and above all the repercussions of a disrupted childhood . . . a real tour de force' <b>Christine Dwyer Hickey</b><br><br>'Picks at the wounds only a mother can inflict . . . ambitious . . . intricate' <b><i>Sunday Independent</i></b></p>