Shadows Before

Stella Yorke leads a quiet, comfortable life as a psychotherapist in London. But one day an unexpected phone call threatens to tear aside this carefully constructed order and cast Stella back to the days of her tumultuous youth in rural Ireland. Noreen Brown's first novel is a passionate distillation of what it means to face ones own conflicts and contradictions. And ultimately, it is in how Stella makes this journey that we discover, not only who Stella is, but who she can still become...