Sea Defences

In her taut, lyrical debut, Hilary Taylor weaves the bleak power of the Norfolk winter into a searingly honest psychological drama, as gripping as any thriller

‘Fans of Broadchurch will love it’ Sarah Linley
RUNNER-UP: New Angle Prize
SHORTLISTED: Paul Torday Memorial Prize
SHORTLISTED: Creative Suffolk Author Award

Rachel, a trainee vicar struggling to bond with her flock in the coastal town of Holthorpe, learns the terrifying power of the North Sea when her six-year-old daughter goes missing on the beach.
Meanwhile Mary, a defiant and distrustful loner, is fighting her own battle against nature as the crumbling Norfolk shoreline brings her clifftop home ever closer to destruction.
Both scarred by life, the two women are drawn into an unlikely friendship, but Mary’s misfit son Adam is nursing a secret. For Rachel, it will subject her battered faith to its greatest test: will she be strong enough to forgive?
In her taut, lyrical debut novel, Hilary Taylor weaves the bleak power of the East Anglian winter into a searingly honest psychological drama, as gripping as any thriller

Pages: 323

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