
After the Fall - Charity Norman Reading-Group Fiction (Paperback)
Charity Norman (author)Published: 03/01/2013
In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night, a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse, and his condition is critical. At first, Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after all, he's prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother, Martha McNamara, knows how it happened. And she isn't telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever.
Tragedy isn't what the McNamara family expected when they moved to New Zealand. For Martha, it was an escape. For her artist husband Kit, it was a dream. For their small twin boys, it was an adventure. For sixteen-year-old Sacha, it was the start of a nightmare.
They end up on the isolated east coast of the North Island, seemingly in the middle of a New Zealand tourism campaign. But their peaceful idyll is soon shattered as the choices Sacha makes lead the family down a path which threatens to destroy them all.
Martha finds herself facing a series of impossible decisions, each with devastating consequences for her family.
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 9781743314890
Number of pages: 368
Weight: 360 g
Dimensions: 199 x 129 x 28 mm
Edition: Main
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‘I hoped I was dreaming, because this was a terrifying nightmare.’
Five-year-old Finn is taken by rescue helicopter to hospital one night after a fall from the upstairs balcony of his family home deep in rural New...
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A really good read, a real page turner, I felt as if I knew all the characters in person, the story really pulled you in, just wanted it to go on and on.
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