Come Sunday - Large Print Author:Isla Morley WINNER OF THE JANET HEIDINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION — FINALIST FOR THE COMMONWEALTH PRIZE — Abbe is a restless young mother living on the outskirts of Honolulu with her husband, Greg, the pastor at a small church. Their lives are suddenly riven by tragedy when their three-year-old daughter, Cleo, is struck and killed by car. As Greg turns to God... more » and community for comfort, Abbe turns inward and reflects upon her own troubled past.
Isla Morley brilliantly weaves the story of Abbe's grief with a gripping tale of her tempestuous childhood in apartheid South Africa -- and how Abbe's father, a villainous drunk, held her family hostage for decades with his rage, until they finally began to plot their escape from him. Come Sunday is a spellbinding drama about a woman breaking free of her grief and of her past, and what it takes to revive hope when all seems lost.« less