"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, Cassie 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
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9781844885992
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 340 g
Dimensions: 215 x 135 x 24 mm
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 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
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
I was tempted by this novel when I saw it was billed as a good read for fans of Maggie O’Farrell, Anne Tyler, Elizabeth Strout and Tessa Hadley,
This is quite a gentle read, the story of two siblings, with the same...
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I made no secret of how much I loved 'nothing but blue sky' by Kathleen MacMahon which I read when it was longlisted for the Women's Prize for fiction - so before I go any further if you haven't... More
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