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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Story of the drowning of a child in a backyard pool. Viewed from each surviving family member's perspective. Insights into the grief, trauma, guilt, confusion and anger experienced. ( ) This is a pretty good book, I reckon. It's all about what happens when a marriage that is already stressed is subject to the trauma of the drowning of their toddler in a backyard pool. How can any person survive this? What does it do the the survivors? The fact that the author is such a survivor is probably why the characters' responses seem so realistic. I didn't give it 5 stars because I thought the final outcome was a little too commercial. But maybe I'm wrong. no reviews | add a review
The Brennans - parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby - have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work, school and life in a sprawling purple weatherboard when, one morning, tragedy strikes.In the devastating aftermath questions fly: What really happened? And who's to blame?Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah - his innocence lost - faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain.Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope. No library descriptions found. |
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