Half Broken Things - Tapa dura

A haunting novel of moral ambiguity looks at the nature of love and what a person will do in its name as it follows the lives of three strangers--an aging housesitter, a struggling con man, and a young pregnant woman--who seek refuge at Walden Manor, a remote country estate, as they attempt to rebuild their individual lives. 22,500 first printing.

Morag Joss grew up on the west coast of Scotland. She began writing in 1996, when her first short story won an award in a national competition. She then wrote three Sara Selkirk novels, set in Bath, and with her fourth novel, Half Broken Things, she won the 2003 CWA Silver Dagger Award. Her work has been translated into several languages. Morag Joss lives in the country outside the city of Bath and in London, where she is at work on her next novel, Puccini’s Ghosts.