After The Fall

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In the quiet of a New Zealand winters night a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. Hes fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse & his condition is critical. At first Finns fall looks like a horrible accident; after all hes prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother Martha Mc Namara knows how it happened. & she isnt telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever. Tragedy isnt what the Mc Namara family expected when they moved to New Zeal&. For Martha it was an escape. For her artist husband Kit it was a dream. For their small twin boys it was an adventure. For sixteen-year-old Sacha it was the start of a nightmare. They end up on the isolated east coast of the North Island seemingly in the middle of a New Zealand tourism campaign. But their peaceful idyll is soon shattered as the choices Sacha makes lead the family down a path which threatens to destroy them all. Martha finds herself facing a series of impossible decisions each with devastating consequences for her family. See Judys Review See Richards Review Download A Sample Chapter Of After the Fall See Charity Norman talk about her book Read about the Author Exclusive Bonus Content Write a Review for After the Fall Judys Review After the Fall is a book about a family in crisis. If you enjoy reading family sagas involving current edgy dilemmas (such as the novels of Jodi Picoult) I really recommend it. Martha Mc Namaras family life in London is in ruins. Thanks to the recession her husband Kit has lost his job. The advertising agency hes been doing so well in has crashed & all Kits attempts to find another job have failed. Blaming himself Kit starts drinking heavily. Desperate for a second chance Martha & Kit decide to emigrate to N ew Zeal&. Kit is a talented artist & he dreams of fulfilling his potential out there. Working so hard in London to provide for his family hes had no time to paint & longs for a fresh start. Martha & her two small twin sons Finn & Charlie are thrilled with their new home in Hawks Bay
- a small town on the isolated east coast of New Zealands North Island (where the author herself lives). Kit stops drinking & happily begins to paint again. Only Marthas sixteen-year-old daughter Sacha has trouble settling in. In fact for her emigrating is the start of a nightmare. Desperate to believe that shes made the right decision for her family Martha tries to ignore her increasing worries about her daughter until one night the family is engulfed by tragedy. Their beautiful idle t"