Healing Flynn - Softcover

Mead, Juliette

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007163878 ISBN 13: 9780007163878

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2003

Synopsis

A stunningly powerful novel of love and suffering for fans of Anita Shreve and Rosie Thomas.

It is a wild, terrible night when Madeline light sets eyes on Flynn Brennan, out in the North Sea trying to help the survivors of a devastating oil-rig disaster.

Weeks later, the same man appears at her door. A war photographer, he can no longer work, locked in his memories of one trip in particular. Unable to access his creativity, he is gradually shutting down and shutting out those he loves: his wife, his teenage children. Madeline is a trauma therapist and Flynn believes she can heal him. He begs her to help.

Madeline lives a carefully ordered, calm life with her partner, sculptor Patrick and Flynn's arrival is an unwanted interruption. But despite her hostility, she breaks her rules and takes him on. And as she struggles with this proud, difficult, passionate man, with whom she feels an extraordinary connection, she finds that she, too, must face up to her own demons from the past – and start to heal – even as she faces up to her present and her feelings for Flynn.

Immensely moving and powerful, Healing Flynn is an unforgettable novel.

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Review:

A powerfully-told story of guilt, grief and the need to live and love again in order to survive.' SUNDAY MIRROR

"The novel is a love story and engages at that level... [and also] an intriguing novel, which should appeal equally to anyone who has been in therapy, anyone who is curious what therapist and their clients talk about, and anyone who needs therapy themselves. It is a big constituency." SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

‘Healing Flynn deals intelligently with relationships and uses highly charged dramatic events to suggest similarly intense emotional landscapes. Powerful stuff.’ CLOSER

‘Juliette Mead uses the power of love to broach the subjects of loss, suffering and human relations. We are presented with two powerful insights into how a man reacts and deals with a war situation and what the loss of a child can mean to a woman.’ PUNCH

ACCLAIM FOR JULIETTE MEAD:

‘Juliette Mead writes with a delightful, playful intelligence and turns an unerring eye on the vagaries of desire, guilt and reconciliation.’ SHE

‘Strong, vital and absorbing’
Elizabeth Buchan, MAIL ON SUNDAY

‘An enjoyable and often moving read.’ DAILY MAIL

‘A poised and cleverly woven tale.’ Erica James

‘Astutely written... an unconventional and compelling love story with big appeal’
HOME & LIFE

Synopsis:

A stunningly powerful novel of love and suffering from the acclaimed author of SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY and CHARLOTTE STREET. At a terrible moment of high drama, with a fire on a North Sea oil rig, Madeline Light, a trauma therapist, is flown in by helicopter to give immediate aid to survivors and their families. Posing as an oil company official, Flynn Brennan, a photo-journalist specialising in war and disaster, usues her to gain passage onto the rig to take photographs of the aftermath. Three months later, with his marriage almost in tatters, and showing the early signs of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Brennan doorsteps the therapist and persuades her to take him on as a client. He comes across as hard-bitten and provocative, but despite herself and her own steady but untimately barren relationship with the sculptor Patrick, Madeline finds herself irresistibly drawn to him. During the progress of his therapy and of their relationship, Flynn is finally restored to himself and Madeline healed of her own secret trauma.

Like THE HORSE WHISPERER, THE DEEP END OF THE OCEAN and THE PRINCE OF TIDES, HEALING FLYNN works at several levels -- as an emotionally impactful love story; an incisive analysis of human relationships, and as a wise novel about the nature of tragedy, suffering and healing.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0007163878
• ISBN 13: 9780007163878
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384