LULLABY BEACH

No more days, no more times, no more tides. No more secrets.A compelling novel about family secrets and the legacy of trauma, set against the changing fortunes of an English seaside town over the last seventy years, from award-winning writer Stella Duffy. When Lucy discovers the body of her great aunt Kitty, with a puzzlingnote and empty pill bottles by her bed, she can’t believe that the woman who held her family together is gone – or understand why this formidable woman has taken her own life. The note lists a series of dates without any explanation and so Lucy sets out to discover what Kitty’s final message means. What Lucy finds will overturn everything she thought she knew about her family, and takes the reader on a journey through three generations of a complicated, close-knit family whose joys and misfortune track many of the most pressing conflicts and concerns of post-war Britain, from the promise and hypocrisies of 1950s London to the political divides and risky freedoms of the present day. Told with the warmth, generosity and fierce passion which has won Stella Duffy so much praise over her career, Lullaby Beach is a brilliant story of loss and love, revenge and redemption.]]>