She has to assume the role of supporter for her inconsolable husband, who has distanced himself and created a secret life. Consumed by grief and rage, she is forced to carry the weight of the family’s pain. Ryan, not the kind of boy to find himself on the wrong end of a knife, is brutally murdered.
Then the unimaginable happens, and in a single moment Marcia is stripped clean of everything she had presumed was hers for keeps. This routine was part of the wonderful, secure life they had built, complete with a brilliant and handsome sixteen-year-old son, Ryan. Marcia’s husband, Lloydie, expresses his tender love for his wife each morning by preparing a cup of tea and setting it by her bedside.
From the critically acclaimed author of A Cupboard Full of Coats comes a provocative novel of a mother enduring the loss of her child, illuminating some of the most important and troubling issues of our time.
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