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The Lake Of Dreams by Kim Edwards

After years abroad, Lucy returns home from Japan, following recurring dreams of her home seemingly sparked by a series of earthquakes. Lucy met her partner, Yoshi while they were both working in Indonesia, but then the contracts finished and they moved to Japan because of Yoshi’s job. Since then Lucy has been unemployed and feeling more and more isolated in a strange country as Yoshi’s new job means he spends more time away from home than ever. Now, at a crossroads in her life, she finds herself haunted by her father’s unresolved death a decade ago.

Late one night, as she paces the hallways of her family’s rambling lakeside house, she discovers a collection of objects locked in a window seat. At first the objects appear to be little more than idle curiosities, but they soon reveal a complex family history.

Old longings stirred up by her passionate first love, Keegan Fall soon lead her into the unexpected. As Lucy discovers and explores the traces of her past, the family story she has always known starts to unravel, then is dramatically reconfigured giving her the chance to live with a freedom she has never known before.

This is a novel with surprises at every turn and is brimming with vibrant detail. It is an intriguing saga of a woman finding herself while uncovering family secrets and truths about her family’s history. It is the story of lost love, redemption and all the many pieces of the puzzle that makes up a person’s life.

RRP $40.00
Published and distributed by Penguin Group under the Penguin Viking title
 

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