num_pages: 357
description: What do you do when your family's dream becomes a nightmare? Combining the skill of Jodi Picoult with the warmth of Anita Shreve Charity Norman explores  with heart-thumping tension  a fresh start which goes very badly wrong.In the quiet of a New Zealand winter's night a rescue helicopter is sent to airlift a five-year-old boy with severe internal injuries. He's fallen from the upstairs veranda of an isolated farmhouse and his condition is critical. At first Finn's fall looks like a horrible accident; after all he's prone to sleepwalking. Only his frantic mother Martha McNamara knows how it happened. And she isn't telling. Not yet. Maybe not ever. Tragedy isn't what the McNamara family expected when they moved to New Zealand. For Martha it was an escape. For her artist husband Kit it was a dream. For their small twin boys it was an adventure. For sixteen-year-old Sacha it was the start of a nightmare.They end up on the isolated east coast of the North Island seemingly in the middle of a New Zealand tourism campaign. But their peaceful idyll is soon shattered as the choices Sacha makes lead the family down a path which threatens to destroy them all.Martha finds herself facing a series of impossible decisions each with devastating consequences for her family.
language: English
title: After the Fall
publisher: Allen & Unwin