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The author of the critically acclaimed A Cupboard Full of Coats makes her hardcover debut with a provocative and timely novel about an emotionally devastated mother s struggle to understand her teenage son s death, and her search for meaning and hope in the wake of incomprehensible loss.The unimaginable has happened to Marcia Williams. Her bright and beautiful sixteen-year-old son, Ryan, has been brutally murdered. Consumed by grief and rage, she must bridle her dark feelings and endure something no mother should ever have to experience: she must go to court for the trial of the killer another teenage boy accused of taking her son s life.How could her son be dead? Ryan should have been safe he wasn t the kind of boy to find himself on the wrong end of a knife carried by a dangerous young man like Tyson Manley.
About the Author
Yvvette Edwards is a British author of Montserratian origin. Her debut novel, A Cupboard Full of Coats, was nominated for a number of literary awards including the Man Booker prize. Her second novel, The Mother, was published in 2016. She is a compulsive reader and writer, and is passionately interested in human beings and the ways in which they have been uniquely moulded and sanded into shape by their life experience. She loves travel, dazzling autumn landscapes and carrot cake. She currently resides in London with her family.
