![]() ![]() "I'd have bore you with far better grace and I might have enjoyed you if I had stayed in Wales." The problem was that she kept seeing her younger sister as a rival for her parents' affections: "I thought it would always be just us three – my parents, and me," she silently confides.Ī straight-A student with a unique aptitude for science, her fragile existence is also thrown into peril when she obtains a scholarship and is eventually packed off to Lockham Thorpe, a lonely, overcast boarding school far away on the Eastern side of England. Moira ultimately blames herself and is torn apart by the fact that she wasn't a more caring sister and more at hand when Amy was growing up. ![]() Indeed, she was almost left for dead to slowly bleed to death on top of Church Rock. ![]() Moira never imagined that her sister could fall from such a great height, nothing so brutal, with the gulls screaming, the sharp hard drag of her knees across the rocks, and "later the doctor plucking a muscle out of her skull." ![]() "It is in you then, the sea, it's a part of you," laments twenty-seven-year-old Moira Stone as she sits next to Amy, her teenage sister who lies on her back in a coma in a hospital bed with her eyes permanently closed, "held forever silently beneath the surface." Wracked with guilt and regret, Moira tells of how her days are now spent in a white, west-facing house on an English coast with Ray, her landscape artist husband. Book review: Susan Fletcher's *Oystercatchers* ![]()
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