Fractured P/B

by Clar Ni Chonghaile

ISBN: 9781785079825

Published: 2016-02

Shortlisted for the Amazon Rising Star Award Longlisted for the Guardian Not the Booker prize 2016 'Clar provides access to the beating hearts on all sides of terror that even our best journalists can't reach...' -- Christopher Bollen, author 'Compelling and relentless...page-turner of a novel' -- Damien Lewis 'A turbulent journey to the world's most forgotten corners' -- Celeste Hicks, author and former BBC journalist 'A stunning debut' -- Nick Brownlee, author and journalist 'This is a layered, textured, wholehearted novel that will stay with me for a long time' -- Lean Cullinan, author Journalist Peter Maguire has been kidnapped in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. He does not know where he is or what is going to happen to him. The journalist is filled with fear and, as the days go by, this dread of the unknown is shot through with remorse for the mistakes of his past. Peter's mother Nina comes to Somalia to wait for her son's release. His plight forces her to relive another trauma...