Kathleen MacMahon

'Wait they leave the rock?' 'Of course. How else would they survive? On opposite sides of the world half-siblings Cassie and Christo have built their lives around work intent on ignoring their painful past. When a dramatic storm in Galway hits the headlines they're drawn back there to revisit a glorious childhood summer the last before their mother died. But their journey uncovers memories of a far less happy summer - one that had tragic consequences.

Confronted with the havoc their mother left in her wake Cassie and Christo are forced to face their past and - ready or not - to deal with the messy tangle of parental love and neglect that shaped them. 

Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? David thought so. But when his wife Mary Rose dies suddenly he has to think again. In reliving their twenty years together David sees that the ground beneath them had shifted and he simply hadn't noticed. Or had chosen not to. Figuring out who Mary Rose really was and the secrets that she kept - some of these hidden in plain sight - makes David wonder if he really knew her. Did he even know himself?