CHARITY NORMAN
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Second Chances (2012)
aka After The Fall
Martha has moved her family - partner Kit, teenage daughter Sasha and five-year-old twins Finn and Charlie - from the UK to New Zealand for a fresh start. They settle into a remote farmhouse but disaster strikes one night when Finn ends up in a coma after a serious fall. Martha tells the authorities he fell from the veranda while sleepwalking but something doesn't add up. The story alternates between hospital scenes to earlier episodes as the family finds their bearings in their new home. This is a real page-turner with a serious message and a very evocative setting.
Freeing Grace (2010)
Matt Hamilton has just become a teenage dad. He bonds with his baby daughter Grace but realises - like the young mother already had - that he can't bring her up. Meanwhile, Leila Edmunds and her husband David, a church curate, are struggling with their own inability to have children. It looks as if they are about to receive a miracle. But then Jake, a New Zealander at a loose end, is welcomed into the Hamilton fold and is sent to Africa to track down Matt's mother, who may be able to convince the authorities that Grace belongs with her birth family. This compelling, accomplished and often dark debut takes lots of twists and turns as it explores the dilemma of what's in the child's best interests. Don't pass this one by.
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