The Lock-Keeper’s Wife by John MacKenna

Description Julie McDermot has just been released from The Mental, the psychiatric institution where her husband committed her after the devastating loss of their two infant children. Returning to her narrow, lonely life along the canal, Julie is haunted by grief and the aching absence of what might have been. As she struggles to piece herself back together, an unexpected encounter with a stranger along the canal offers a glimmer of connection and the fragile possibility of hope. Customers Also Liked Related products We Seldom Talk About the Past: Selected Short Stories by John MacKenna Of the Abuse of Words by John Locke The Lock-Up: A Strafford and Quirke Murder Mystery by John Banville The Keeper by Tana French Reviews