The McKernan Literary Agency & Consultancy Edinburgh
Clare Lynch
There are birds in Emer's dream. Grey birds that circle and swoop in effortless arcs across a milky sky. She studies them without allowing her gaze to flicker; magnetized by their charcoal forms, unwilling to cast her eyes back down to the desperate shore. The gulf begins to vanish. A cramp, a tightening across the sole of her foot pulls her reluctantly back into the warmth of the bed. In those seconds of limbo - the uncertain, fleeting moments between dreams and waking - she clings onto the fragile cord of escape. Not yet. She tries to rise up, back towards that sky, but swiftly those birds dissolve from her sight and she feels again the heaviness of her shoulders on the mattress. An arm, a buttock. Encased in sweat-crinkled, fretful cotton...
Soon, a circle of panic; an electrifying blue light that slices across a pink sky; two strong arms wrapping her in a blanket; and her sister's face. Ashen.
Cait.
Broken For You is a powerful, unforgettable and unputdownable psychological drama, set in Edinburgh, from a new and very gifted writer.
Two sisters: Emer and Cait - the one responsible and caring, earnestly embracing young motherhood, the other over-indulged and selfish,a free spirit. When Cait finds herself a single mother of a child with autism, Emer is forced to step back into her sister's life. Can she persuade her sister to wake up, and take responsibility for her life, and her son's?
Clare Lynchis 38. She was born in Edinburgh and lives in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where she teaches English. She studied for four years at Queen's University in Belfast.
There are birds in Emer's dream. Grey birds that circle and swoop in effortless arcs across a milky sky. She studies them without allowing her gaze to flicker; magnetized by their charcoal forms, unwilling to cast her eyes back down to the desperate shore. The gulf begins to vanish. A cramp, a tightening across the sole of her foot pulls her reluctantly back into the warmth of the bed. In those seconds of limbo - the uncertain, fleeting moments between dreams and waking - she clings onto the fragile cord of escape. Not yet. She tries to rise up, back towards that sky, but swiftly those birds dissolve from her sight and she feels again the heaviness of her shoulders on the mattress. An arm, a buttock. Encased in sweat-crinkled, fretful cotton...
Clare Lynch is 38. She was born in Edinburgh and lives in Kirkcaldy, Fife, where she teaches English. She studied for four years at Queen's University in Belfast.
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