Bridge of Clay

By the author of the multi-million-copy bestseller: THE BOOK THIEF'Achingly moving, delightfully funny, and thoroughly uplifting.' M L STEDMAN, author of THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS
'This book BLEW ME AWAY' JODI PICOULT
'Rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving' TIMES
___Our mother was dead. Our father had fledFive Dunbar brothers are living - fighting, loving, grieving - in the perfect chaos of a house without grown-ups.This is a family rocked by tragedy and long buried secrets. To understand his family's story, Matthew Dunbar must travel to find three things. A lost typewriter -- A dead dog -- The bones of the snake that killed it.He will learn of a mother who crosses continents for a new home; of a father searching for love in the keys of an old piano; and, finally, of a brother named Clay, who will make the most challenging journey of them all, and change their lives for ever.
___Readers love Bridge of Clay:***** 'Page upon glorious page left my heart bruised, but gratefully beating'
***** 'A book rarely touches me so emotionally'
***** 'Original, compelling and richly resonant' 'One of those monumental books that can draw you across space and time' WASHINGTON POST
'Devastating, demanding, deeply moving' WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Moving and epic' STYLIST