The Offering
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Something happened to Madeline when she was thirteen, something so traumatic that it led to her incarceration in a mental hospital twenty-one years ago, but which she can't remember - or is she just pretending that she can't?
The charismatic new doctor, Dr Lucas, believes he can unlock Madeline's memory; gradually, he takes her back to the year her father uprooted the family and moved them across the sea to an unnamed island, where they lived in an isolated old farmhouse. Money was short, Madeline's mother frequently ill, and her father - a messianic preacher - a domineering, volatile presence, yet Madeline loved their rural idyll: here, she felt, she could finally connect with God. But when things started to go wrong, it becomes clear that Madeline had a dangerously warped sense of how to put them right. And as Dr Lucas forces her further down memory's path, something has to give . . .This is the haunting tale of a very unusual rite of passage, of innocence, sin, and a cataclysmic psychological battle. Superbly evoking the rural paradise Madeline finds herself in, The Offering shows just how much damage human beings can wreak in the name of the God they believe in.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781444770018
- Author: Grace McCleen
- Pub date: 22.01.15
- RRP: $28.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Grace McCleen
Grace McCleen's first novel, The Land of Decoration, was published in 2012 and was awarded the Desmond Elliott Prize for the best first novel of the year. It was also chosen for Richard & Judy's Book Club and won her the Betty Trask Prize in 2013. Her second novel, The Professor of Poetry, was published by Sceptre in 2013. She read English at the University of Oxford and has an MA from York, and currently lives in London.
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