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This is the second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve Green. Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Here, Moira confesses. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dra This is the second novel from highly acclaimed young writer Susan Fletcher, author of the award-winning Eve Green. Amy lies in a coma. Her older sister, Moira, comes to her in the evenings, sits beside her in a green-walled hospital room. Here, Moira confesses. She admits to her childhood selfishness which deeply hurt her family and to the self-imposed exile from the dramatic Welsh coast that had dominated and captivated her childhood to her savagery at boarding school to the wild, bitter and destructive heart that she carried into her adult life. Moira knows this: that shes been a poor daughter, and a deceptive wife. But it is as Amy lies half-dying that she sees the real truth: shes been a cruel sister, and it is this cruelty that has led them both here, to this hospital bed. A novel about trust, loss and loneliness, Oystercatchers is a love story with a profound darkness at its core.