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Silver & Salt

“There was a child in our courtyard. I saw a child there, standing by the fountain. She was there, then she was gone.”

On the death of her father, the celebrated photographer Max Hollingbourne, Ruthie returns to his villa in Greece after fifteen years in exile. Tortured by a dark secret from her childhood and by memories of her mother, whose despair had turned to madness, Ruthie is nevertheless able to build a fragile happiness at the villa with her older sister, Vinny. But the arrival of an English family at a neighboring cottage, and of one young girl in particular, triggers a chain of events that will plunge both women back into their harrowing pasts. Haunting, lyrical, and shocking in its graphic re-creation of the traumas that shape two families, Silver and Salt is a brilliantly incisive novel about the destructive consequences of love and betrayal.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 376
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780393239768
  • Genres
  • fiction
  • Release date
  • 2017