Lifesaving for Beginners

Kat Kerrigan is a writer. She goes by the pseudonym of Declan Darker and is in the middle of finishing her tenth (internationally bestselling) crime novel. Her publishers want to announce her identity to the world for her final book but that's the last thing Kat wants to do. Her private life is private and there are things in her past she wants to keep hidden. But then Kat is involved in a horrific pile-up on the M50 and just like that, everything changes ...

Across the Irish Sea in Brighton, nine-year old Milo is struggling to come to terms with the death of his mother in the same car crash. His sister Faith is doing her best to look after him, as well as finish her music degree, practise her violin, gig with her band and keep their mother's cafe going. But then Faith uncovers a secret. A 25 year old secret. And just like that, everything changes. Shocked and disoriented, Faith - and Milo - begin a journey to discover the truth, a journey that takes them across the Irish sea to Dublin and to Kat Kerrigan ...The truth shall set you free. That's what Milo's teacher says when she's trying to get people to confess to various petty crimes around the classroom. But the truth is not always an easy thing to find.


Genre: General Fiction