After Before

By: Jemma Wayne

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Synopsis: Three women, beset by trauma, temptation, and regret, find each other in this &“rich, haunted, gripping&” novel (Ruth Padel, award-winning author of Beethoven Variations).That was the day that Mama made the rules: If they come, run. Be quiet and run. But not together. Never together. If one is found, at least the other survives… During a cold British winter, three women, each suffering her own demons, reach a crisis point. Emily, an immigrant survivor of the Rwandan genocide, is existing but not living. Vera, a newly Christian Londoner, is striving to live a moral life, her happiness constantly undermined by secrets from her past. Lynn, battling with an untimely disease, is consumed by bitterness and resentment of what she hasn&’t achieved and what has been snatched from her. Their lives have been torn open by betrayal: by other people, by themselves, by life itself. But as their paths interweave, they begin to unravel their beleaguered pasts, and inadvertently change each other&’s futures. Longlisted for the Baileys Women&’s Prize for Fiction

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