Regret and jealousy consume the overweening protagonist of this frustrating novel by the Whitbread-winning author of Eve Green. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. Moira's story, told to a comatose Amy, alternates between the first and third person it is confusing at first, but patient readers will find hope in Moira's growth.-Jenny Gasset, Orange County Public Library, CA (c) Copyright 2010. When she once again embraces her abiding love for the ocean, for the coast, she opens herself up to her love for her husband, for her parents, and even for the sister whom she has always held at arm's length. Her deep-felt belief in her isolation stunts all of her relationships until a tragedy involving Amy makes Moira realize that she is not cold, without words, without love. That she, not her beautiful classmate Heather, attracts the attention of a local boy is as big a surprise to Moira as to anyone, even after she marries the young artist. Once away, Moira feels alienated from her parents, her classmates, and the landscape of her childhood home. Then she was sent to boarding school on the other side of England, and her sister, Amy, was born. She was raised an only child on the coast of Wales until she was 11. Adult/High School-Moira, like the protagonist in Fletcher's Eve Green (Norton, 2004), reflects upon her childhood and adolescence in this atmospheric novel.
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