Absence - Issa Quincy Paperback / softback author of The Ruin Of

author of The Ruin Of All Witches'At a time when women's rights are once again being threatened across the globe

befriends one of Crosby's longest inhabitants

this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides

heartbreaking and memorable

Absence - Issa Quincy Paperback / softback author of The Ruin OfA child is beguiled by a poem read to him by his mother. The poem follows this elusive narrator like a whisper throughout his life, echoing across the years in the stories and lives of others as they are recounted to him: an enigmatic and beloved schoolteacher who leaves behind a dark secret after his death; a woman who lays the table for a son she knows will never return home; a young man shunned by his family, who finds solace and freedom in the