Emotional Geology

Fiction that mirrors the experiences of women 45+ I talk to the island. I don't speak, but my thoughts are directed towards it. Sometimes it replies. Never in words of course. I miss trees. You don't notice at first that there are hardly any trees here, just that the landscape is very flat, as if God had taken away all the hills and mountains and dumped them on neighbouring Skye. But eventually you realise it's trees that you miss. Trees talk back. Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Taking refuge in a remote island community, she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. But she is haunted by a shattered past, by memories and desires she'd hoped were long dead. Has Rose chosen a new life with new friends and possibly new love, or just a different kind of death? Rose's tenuous hold on life and sanity is tested as she battles to integrate her past with her future and is forced to decide how she wants to live her life and with whom. A highly accomplished debut novel from a bright new star on the literary fiction scene.