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The Home Scar
Kathleen Macmahon
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Description for The Home Scar
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"MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page ... subtle and authentic" - Claire Fuller
On opposite sides of the world, half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work, intent on ignoring their painful past.
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.
Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake, ... Read moreCassie 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.
The Home Scar is a luminous and precise story about the inheritance of loss and the possibility of finally making peace with it.
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"Her beautifully simple style belies psychological complexity ... and her tone is wryly accepting" - Big Issue
"Quiet and bleakly beautiful ... like the siblings and Ireland, it will leave a permanent mark on those who venture into its depths" - Buzz
"Picks at the wounds only a mother can inflict ... ambitious ... intricate" - Sunday Independent
"An exceptional novel about a brother and sister returning to the west of Ireland and to a summer of their past." - Anne Griffin, Sunday Independent
"A powerful story about legacy and loss and the possibility of reconciliation" - Irish Times
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Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Kathleen Macmahon
The Home Scar is Kathleen MacMahon's fourth novel. Her debut, This is How it Ends, spent five weeks at the top of the Irish bestseller chart, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice. It was followed by The Long, Hot Summer, also an Irish bestseller, and Nothing But Blue Sky, longlisted for the 2021 Women's Prize for Fiction. ... Read moreKathleen is a former broadcast journalist. She lives in Dublin with her family. Show Less
Reviews for The Home Scar
A powerful story about legacy and loss and the possibility of reconciliation
Irish Times
Her beautifully simple style belies psychological complexity . . . and her tone is wryly accepting
Big Issue
Quiet and bleakly beautiful . . . like the siblings and Ireland, it will leave a permanent mark on those who venture into its ... Read moredepths
Buzz
Picks at the wounds only a mother can inflict . . . ambitious . . . intricate
Sunday Independent
An exceptional novel about a brother and sister returning to the west of Ireland and to a summer of their past.
Anne Griffin
Sunday Independent
MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page . . . subtle and authentic
Claire Fuller Thoughtful, understated . . . it has a quiet power
Irish Independent
Wonderful
Brendan O'Connor
RTÉ
A gorgeous story of sibling love. It reads like a psychological adventure story into memory
Louise Nealon A spell-binding story of inherited grief and the unbreakable bond between siblings as they unpick memories of their shared past . . . [MacMahon's] characters feel authentic and relatable for all their flaws
Aingeala Flannery Such a treat . . . another stunner from Kathleen MacMahon
Henrietta McKervey With her usual effortless writing style and ability to make characters pop off the page, [The Home Scar] is a moving read
Woman's Way
An intriguing, meticulous and generation-spanning story of love, loss and healing
Ed O'Loughlin 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, The Home Scar is a work of considerable moral power
Neil Hegarty 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
Christine Dwyer Hickey The Home Scar once again displays Kathleen MacMahon's gimlet-eyed understanding of grown-up frailty
Hilary Fannin A delight - I loved every word of it
Catherine Dunne An understated, powerful read.
Irish Examiner
[MacMahon's] exploration of connection, to each other and the ones we've lost, is . . . sensitively done and wrapped in the rich storytelling that has made her a notable name in Irish literature
RTÉ Guide
A love story to the west of Ireland as much as it is a family mystery, this beautifully written novel will entrance anyone who has memories of childhood holidays spent in the area.
Liadán Hynes
Sunday Independent
MacMahon's fourth novel ... is another eloquently written and elegantly shaped novel that lays bare those scars that many of us carry and cover.
RTÉ Guide
An exceptional novel by one of Ireland's foremost literary talents. A book not to be missed
Anne Griffin One of Ireland's finest twenty-first century writers
Margaret Madden
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