“I did not tell my sister that our other sister was dying. Silence was the right choice, yet murky and painful”
In family estrangement, the mud and dirt gets everywhere, Kathryn Heyman writes. “And it is very hard to undo what has been done”
She is the author of 9 novels, and the acclaimed memoir, Fury. She has won numerous awards infact almost too many to mention.
Her new book “Circle of Wonders”is a novel about facing death while rediscovering life, and about the messy grace that emerges when people who’ve hurt one another choose to love anyway.
Roni is running out of time.
As cancer claims her body, she begins a Book of Wonders, capturing the small, luminous moments she once overlooked. It’s a final gift to the people she loves, and completing it means reckoning with both the flawed life she has lived and the fractured family she’s about to leave behind.
Over one charged lunar month, the women closest to her gather: Belle, her daughter fresh from rehab and trying to stay upright; Anna, her brilliant sister returning from London with all her old certainties cracking; and Sylvie, her estranged mother, approaching her own death across the mountain ridge. Meanwhile, Roni’s ex, the Drone, as she’s dubbed him, haunts the house, casting shade on the light she’s fighting to keep burning.
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