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The House of Broken Bricks
€ 12.50
ISBN: 9780571379576
'Beautifully written.'
Prima
'An almanac for the heart.'
EVIE WOODS, author of The Lost Bookshop
'Clever, heartbreaking, heartwarming.'
JO BROWNING WROE, author of A Terrible Kindness
If every marriage has its seasons, Richard and Tess's is in a deep winter.
Ain't nothing wrong with being broken. Nothing at all. You're like these houses, not a whole brick in em and look how strong they are.
As Tess traces the sunrise over the floodplains, she yearns for the comforting chaos of life as it once was.
The light paints the house a startling crimson: a painful beauty that Tess, Richard and their son Max - riddled with grief - find easy to ignore.
Instead of Max and Sonny tracking dirt through the kitchen - Tess and Richard's 'rainbow twins' - Tess absorbs the quiet. The nights draw in, the soil cools and Richard fights to get his winter crops planted rather than deal with the discussion he cannot bear to have.
But none of them can ignore Sonny, who desperately wants things to go back to the way they were before.
As the seasons change, and the cracks in the bricks let in more light, might this broken family find a way to start to heal?
Secrets and vines clamber over the broken red bricks and although its inhabitants seem to be withering, in the damp, crumbling soil Sonny knows that something is stirring . . . As the seasons change, and the cracks let in more light, the family might just be able to start to heal.
This is the story of a broken family, what they see and what they cannot say laid bare in their overlapping perspectives. It is a tale of life in the cracks, because in the space for acceptance, of passing and of laying to rest, the possibilities of new energy, light and love, are seeded.
Readers love The House of Broken Bricks:
'A masterpiece! Beautifully written, a brilliant debut novel.' @the_postcard_edit
'Absolutely spot-on in how it portrays children's emotional intuition, this is a beaut of a book.'
400 pages.
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Date of Publication: 30/01/2025
Paperback
