Confessions - Catherine Airey

Shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize"Confessions is a remarkable debut. A complex and compulsive read that unravels the intricate twists and revelations among three generations of women with elegance and urgency." -Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceA "dazzling puzzle box of a novel" (Oprah Daily), this gripping family saga follows three generations of women as decades of secrets spill out of the attic of one family's mysterious old home in rural Ireland-a propulsive, page-turning story about the power of choice. New York City, late September 2001. The walls of the city are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady's father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. When a letter arrives from an aunt she didn't know existed in Ireland with the offer of a new life, the name jogs a memory: an old videocassette game Cora used to play as a child where two sisters must save the students of a mysterious boarding school.County Donegal, 1974. An eclectic group of artists known as the Screamers arrives in Burtonport and moves into the old schoolhouse down the road from where Roisin lives with her older sister Maire. Alternately kind and cruel, brilliant artist Maire is a mystery to Roisin, as is Maire's relationship with the boy next door, Michael. When the Screamers look to hire an artist in residence, Roisin enlists Michael's help to get Maire the job, a choice that will put an ocean between the sisters and threaten to tear the
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