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The Broken Line
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780954011765
Publisher: Elmdon Books
Published: Jul 31 2025
Pages: 346
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Seventeen-year-old Anita is left rootless and tormented by feelings of guilt after a series of traumatic losses. When a letter is discovered amongst her father's papers, she vows to discover the truth about the Irish grandmother she had thought long dead, but her initial search leads nowhere.
Eleven years later, against the background of a precarious life as an artist in 1980s' London, and the Troubles of Northern Ireland, an unexpected gift finally sets Anita on her quest to unravel family secrets and betrayals. As she uncovers the story of Liza, her maternal grandmother, she comes to understand how unhealed wounds have been passed down through generations of women in her family. A baby stolen at birth, lives torn apart by loss - she must heal the broken line of her maternal lineage.
The author has a gift for making her story telling compelling and empathetic on subjects that can often be painful.
The prequel, angel wing, is an award-winning book that recently earned acclaim from the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
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