Evocative sensitive and compelling . . . Fires directly at the heart and hits the mark' DELIA
OWENS author of Where the Crawdads Sing 'A beautifully observed and brilliantly constructed
page-turner . . . It has everything - love loss fury forgiveness - and I was absolutely
immersed from page one' Mary Beth Keane author of Ask Again Yes Everyone in the village said
nothing good would come of Gabriel's return. And as Beth looks at the man she loves on trial
for murder she can't help think they were right. She was seventeen when she'd first met
Gabriel. Over that heady intense summer he made her think and feel and see differently. She
thought it was the start of her great love story and that it would last forever. When Gabriel
left to become the person his mother expected him to be she was broken. It was Frank who
picked up the pieces. Together they'd built a home very different from the one she'd imagined
with Gabriel. And there was a time - even years - when she was happy. Watching her husband and
son riding a tractor across their farm she remembered feeling so sure that after everything
this was the life she was supposed to be leading. But then Gabriel came back and all Beth's
certainty about who she was and what she wanted crumbled. Even after ten years their
connection was instant. She knew it was wrong and she knew people could get hurt. But how could
she resist a second chance at first love? A love story with the pulse of a thriller Broken
Country is a heart-pounding novel of impossible choices and devastating consequences.
