The Beauty of Impossible Things

This perfect slice of Summer Gothic is a darkly beguiling coming-of-age tale, threaded with fading seaside glamour and simmering heat, from the Irish Times bestselling author of The Temple House Vanishing.

About the author

Rachel Donohue graduated from University College, Dublin, in Philosophy and Politics before embarking on a career in communications and media relations. Her short fiction has been published in the Irish Times, Irish Independent and at RTE online (Irish national broadcaster). In 2017, she won the prestigious Hennessy New Irish Writer of the Year Award for her short fiction. Her debut novel, The Temple House Vanishing was an Irish Times bestseller.

Summary

'Poetic, atmospheric' Daily Mail
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Discover the perfect heatwave read, threaded with fading seaside glamour and simmering heat, from the bestselling author of The Temple House Vanishing

A summer of change. A lifetime of regret.

The summer Natasha Rothwell turns fifteen, strange dancing lights appear in the sky above her small town, lights that she interprets as portents of doom.

Natasha leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bohemian mother in a crumbling house by the sea. As news of the lights spreads, more and more visitors arrive in the town, creating a feverish atmosphere of anticipation and dread. And the arrival of a new lodger, the handsome Mr Bowen, threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium between mother and daughter.

Then Natasha's fears seem to be realized when a local teenager goes missing, and she is called on to help. But her actions over that long, hot summer will have unforeseen and ultimately tragic consequences that will cast a shadow for many years to come...

Product details

• Authors: Rachel Donohue
• Publisher: Atlantic Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.04.2022
• EAN: 9781786499424
• ISBN: 978-1-78649-942-4
• Series: Corvus
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Family Life / General, FICTION / Cultural Heritage, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Crime and mystery fiction, Fiction: general and literary, Intended primarily or specifically for women and/or girls