num_pages: 384
description: Sixteen-year-old Amy lies in a coma. Moira, eleven years older, spends the evenings at her sister's bedside, telling the story of her own life--her secrets, her shameful actions, and her link to the accident that has brought Amy to this bed. In her second novel, Susan Fletcher probes the troubled bond between two sisters: how their lives are undone by the tumultuous forces of envy and loneliness and, in the end, how love emerges as the greatest force of all.
language: English
title: Oystercatchers
titlecomplete: Oystercatchers
characters: Moira Stone
genres: Boarding School, Unfinished, Fiction, Coming Of Age, Chick Lit, Family, Contemporary, Literary Fiction, Novels, British Literature
ratings_count: 855
places: England
publisher: Fourth Estate