christine joanna hart
Christine Joanna Hart used to investigate other people’s secrets for Fleet Street. Now she lives in a freezing chapel above the Cornish sea, carrying a stolen fragment of her father’s garden wall and wondering where her own life went.Then Noah Vaughan appears on television.Former soldier. Anti-immigration campaigner. Angry, magnetic and absolutely certain that something has been taken from him.When hundreds of asylum seekers are moved into an abandoned military site above Zennor, without the village being told, Christine finds herself crossing the line everyone else is shouting across.Outside the fence: fear, anger and a country demanding answers.Inside: men carrying fragments of homes thousands of miles away.Then the rumours begin.Drums on the moor.A slaughtered sheep.An ancient ritual.A young man left fighting for his life.And beneath all of it, something nobody thought to investigate.The water.A provocative psychological novel about immigration, identity, grief and the things human beings will do to recover a world that has already gone.What if the country you’re fighting to get back was never really a country at all?
