Pearl Eleanor Catton A lay community of thoroughly

A lay community of thoroughly mixed-up people is encamped outside Imber Abbey

Maya was a high school senior when her best friend

confined to her family’s decaying estate during the war

where everything looks beautiful covered in snow

Pearl Eleanor Catton A lay community of thoroughlyMarianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mothers love. As time passes, Marianne finds it difficult to adjust, fixated on her mothers disappearance and the secrets shes sure her father is keeping from her. Yet, in one of her mothers dusty old books, she discovers a medieval poem called