TY - BOOK AU - Boyne, John, TI - Water SN - 9780857529817 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2024/// CY - London PB - Doubleday, KW - Life change events KW - Fiction KW - Islands KW - Ireland KW - Recluses KW - Secrecy KW - Scandals KW - Child molesters KW - Self-actualization (Psychology) KW - UK & IRL fiction KW - Short stories KW - Psychological fiction KW - lcgft KW - Novellas KW - rvmgf N2 - The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. Only then can she discover whether she is worthy of finding peace at all ER -