'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
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Our mother was dead. Our father had fled.
Five 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.
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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
'This book blew me away' JODI PICOULT
'Devastating, demanding, deeply moving' WALL STREET JOURNAL
'Moving and epic' STYLIST
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