A Lifetime Burning - Tapa blanda

'disturbing themes, sensitively explored... an emotional avalanche' Lochcarron Reading Group 'a tightly woven literary fabric of many emotional threads...an engrossing and satisfying read.' Well? Magazine 'a compelling, touching, tender book with many beautifully crafted and heart wrenching parts...a surprising read.' Depression Alliance

Greedy for experience but determined to be good, Flora Dunbar spends a lifetime seeking love, trying to build a future out of the wreckage of her past - an eccentric childhood spent in the shadow of her musical twin, Rory; early marriage to Hugh, a clergyman twice her age; motherhood, which brings her Theo, the son she cannot love; and middle-age, when she finds brief happiness in a scandalous affair with her nephew, Colin.