📗 Libro en inglés ABIDE WITH ME

A beautiful new edition of one of acclaimed writer Elizabeth Strout s much loved novels Katherine is only five years old Struck dumb with grief at her mother s death it is down to her father the heartbroken minister Tyler Caskey to bring his daughter out of silence she has observed in the wake of the family s tragedy But Tyler Caskey is barely surviving himself His cold church assigned home is colder still since Lauren s death and he struggles to find the right words for his sermons struggles to be a leader to his congregation when he himself is lost When Katherine s schoolteacher calls to discuss his daughter s anti social behaviour it sparks a chain of events that begins to tear down Tyler s defences The small town rumour mill has much to make of Katherine s odd behaviour and even more to say about Tyler s relationship with his housekeeper Connie Hatch And in Tyler s darkest hour a startling discovery will test his congregation s humanity and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test us all From the Booker shortlisted author of Oh William this is a startlingly beautiful novel about love and abandonment faith and hypocrisy and the peril of family secrets