Somewhere more simple

A brilliant new novel, at last, from the author of If You Can Walk, You Can Dance. Set on the Scilly Isles off the coast of Cornwall, it captures the wildness of place and character vividly. A moving, wonderful read. This new novel by Marion Molteno is an absorbing, lyrical exploration of coming to terms with love and belonging, set against the vividly evoked atmosphere of the Isles of Scilly - cut off from Cornwall by thirty miles of sea, at the whim of the Atlantic, a shifting kaleidoscope of light and colour. Somewhere More Simple is Marion Molteno's third novel. Cari returns as a young teacher to the islands that captured her imagination in childhood. Now they take her way beyond known waters. She becomes involved with two people who have their own reasons for returning - Anna, a painter in her fifties who has cut herself off from her mainland past, and Hugh, drawn to the islands by a taste for self-reliance but now adrift. When a young girl disappears on a school trip to the mainland, Cari, Anna and Hugh are drawn into the mystery and the unanswered questions of their own pasts become more urgent to resolve. -- Book cover.