Protection

by Claire Allen (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $3.39

  An intense, suspenseful and surprising story of three damaged characters, and of a mother's touching struggle to hold on to her child. 'There's nowhere you can go?' Marina is homeless, and struggling to keep her toddler son, Oscar, out of care. Liam has received a letter from the father he has not seen for twenty years -- the father who is in prison for his mother's murder. Hannah is an elderly widow running a B&B peopled by memories rather than guests. Swallowed up again by the pain of his childhood, Liam flees to the coast but finds the hardest of welcomes there. Marina steals a dealer's stash of money and takes a train to the remotest spot she can find, where she quickly encounters Hannah. Hannah can see that Marina is trouble, but loses her heart to Oscar, and cannot resist taking them in. So three lives unexpectedly intersect. But will they find a way through their fears and suspicions to help each other?