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The Sandstone City

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Belfast, 2007. Eighty-eight-year-old Michael Doherty lies in an open coffin, listening to those who have come to pay their respects. Despite his dead son Cormac’s protests, he’s not yet ready to pass over.

His granddaughter is the reason. Sarah has inexplicably abandoned her plans to settle in Spain. She is scarred by the Sandstone City and Michael doesn’t understand why – yet it is a city he knows only too well, populated with his own ghosts.

Michael is granted a special grace period of forty days. Forty days to discover and heal his granddaughter’s trauma. Forty days to face his own past. Forty days to find peace before he must make his final departure.

The Sandstone City is a novel that questions what happens when we lose ourselves, when we lose those we love and which fragments of the self are worth holding onto. It is a story about the choices we make, the choices denied us and how we navigate what’s left. Experimental and accessible literary fiction, for readers who love the work of Max Porter, Isabel Allende, David Mitchell, and Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

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ISBN: 9781916398627
Publication date: 3rd November 2022
Author: Elaine Canning
Publisher: Aderyn Press
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 270 pages
Primary Genre General Fiction
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