Somewhere More Simple

An absorbing exploration of coming to terms with love, loss and belonging, set against the vividly evoked atmosphere of the Isles of Scilly, cut off from Cornwall by thirty miles of sea. 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, an artist in her fifties who has cut herself off from her mainland past, and Hugh, drawn to the islands by a desire to be self-reliance but now adrift. When a young girl disappears while on a school trip to the mainland, all three are drawn into the mystery, and the unanswered questions of their own pasts become more urgent to resolve.


Genre: Literary Fiction