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Paperback. Pub Date:2008-02-04 Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins UK The second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher. author of the award-winning 'Eve Green' Amy lies in a coma.Her older sister. Moira. comes to her in the evenings. sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room.Here. Moira confesses.She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dramatic Welsh coast that had dominated and captivated her childhood; to her savagery at boarding school; to the wild. bitter and destructive heart that she carried into her adult life.Moira knows this: that shes been a poor daughter. and a deceptive wife.But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the real truth: shes been a cruel sister. and it is this cruelty that has led them both here. to this hospital bed.A novel about trust...