Talking To The Dead
Author: Helen Dunmore
Talking to the Dead is bestselling author Helen Dunmore’s fourth novel. There’s nothing closer than sisters . . . Unloved by their distant mother, Isabel and Nina cemented their bond in childhood when tragedy struck the family. Many yeas later, with the difficult birth of Isabel’s first child, it is Nina who comes to stay and help out her older sister. But Nina has other,….Read More
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