Scars

Tanya's inability to speak, her bouts of guilt-ridden self-loathing and destruction, make for a gruelling start. Her mother's re-marriage piles on the tension but the new father, unlike the old, is cruel to be kind, and slowly the psychological and spiritual wounds start to heal... Then Anne Bailey sets the reader back with new revelations! Complex, fractured human emotion and behaviour is straightforwardly explored and simplified in this novel that will do nothing if not unsettle.