Anyone looking at the photographs in Celia's scrapbook would see a portrait of a wonderful marriage, from Celia and Mack Butler's beautiful white wedding--the beginning of her life as a Navy wife--to her growing, smiling family. But Celia's life is not so easily summed up in photographs. The valu
The Scrapbook
โ Scribed by Holmes, Carly
- Book ID
- 108639198
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-IE
- Weight
- 648 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781909844582
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
When I first saw you, I had the sun in my eyes. You shone around the edges, a fireball of a man. In the moments it took me to focus on your centre, I'd absorbed you completely. I re-made myself in tune to your blinks, your frowns, your glances away from me and then back. I read your needs as they soared across your face, and I carved myself anew again and again...
Three women, three generations: one dark secret.
Iris keeps a scrapbook of Lawrence, the lover who went missing years earlier. Fern's father. She defines herself by his loss and soothes herself with gin and the fairytale of this one perfect relationship... Fern, once a 'strange and difficult child' who believed that her dead grandmother's soul lived inside her stomach, reluctantly returns home to the island to take care of Iris. She is tasked with finding Lawrence and in the process she has to confront her own past and memories... Ivy, Iris' mother, had her own cache of secrets; spells she took to...
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