Absence Easter26

'A fast-paced and frightening debut

<p>'A fast-paced and frightening debut that explores the nightmares of new motherhood

And she did it all with style and panache

and uncovers a shocking truth about his family history that threatens to expose his father as a fraud

a global catastrophe seems inevitable

Octavia didn't really know how to react to the incident

Absence Easter26 <p>'A fast-paced and frightening debutA child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they are recounted to him: an enigmatic and beloved schoolteacher who leaves behind a dark secret after his death; a woman who lays the table for a son she knows will never return home; a young man shunned by his family, who finds solace and freedom in the