Sea Defences
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'Poetry in prose. Astutely observed'
Fiona Erskine
Rachel, a trainee vicar struggling to bond with her flock in the coastal town of Holthorpe, learns the terrifying power of the North Sea when her six-year-old daughter goes missing on the beach.
Meanwhile Mary, a defiant and distrustful loner, is fighting her own battle against nature as the crumbling Norfolk shoreline brings her clifftop home ever closer to destruction.
Both scarred by life, the two women are drawn into an unlikely friendship, but Mary's misfit son Adam is nursing a secret. For Rachel, it will subject her battered faith to its greatest test: will she be strong enough to forgive?
In her taut, lyrical debut novel, Hilary Taylor weaves the bleak power of the East Anglian winter into a searingly honest psychological drama, as gripping as any thriller.
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- Intro
- Dedication
- Waves in the Margin
- Crow's Nest
- Bead Things
- Sea Urchin
- Winterbloom
- Footprints
- Holy Stone
- Cormorant
- Sheep Cushion
- Blue Holdall
- Cold Water and Vinegar
- Lancashire Hotpot
- Mermaid
- Clockwork Shark
- Razor Blades and Chocolate
- Hard Hat
- Bench
- A Bag of Pebbles
- An Unlit Candle
- Earth
- Pelican
- Scarf
- Bead Things, Broken
- Pineapple
- Red Paint
- Distress Flare
- Seedy Fences
- Padlock
- Butterscotch Buns
- Giraffe Pyjamas
- Shed
- Fossil Boy
- Shoe
- Treasures
- Flint
- Driftwood
- Wave
- Lighthouse
- Acknowledgements
