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Cider lane: Of Silences and Stars
By Mark Hayes

November 2015 Book of the Month
By A Publisher's Book Club Official Review on October 22, 2015
Format: Kindle Edition
Hayes captures the essence of trauma to perfection in his book Cider Lane: Of Silences and Stars.

It's a difficult feat to write emotion. First, you must submerge yourself within the walls of the pain that we try so desperately to avoid. Hayes does this without flaw as he describes the car crash as witnessed.
It is a macabre beginning to a story that is beautifully told and easily relatable.

-Publisher's Book Club

Free on kindle unlimited and available to buy on kindle £1.99
in paperback £8.99

A young girl is isolated by a hostile world. She watches a car burning, consuming all she knows. Grief-stricken she wanders, lost, and alone, her mind withdrawn into darkness. Fleeing from a world which has made her an outcast. Seeking only a refuge from other people.
Meanwhile a traveller, homeless, damaged by his past and living on the fringes. Seeks solace in solitude. Carrying the regrets of his yesterdays with him. Walking the roads to the lost places, as abandoned by the world as he.
Fate draws them together in Cider Lane, a place long forgotten by the world. Amid ruins of the past they must learn to trust in each other. If only they can. While the world is ever waiting to crash in on them once more.
Because the world never forgets anyone for long.

A novel of the lost and the broken. Of sharing the silences, talking to the stars, and the importance of tin openers.
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5.0 out of 5 stars I thoroughly enjoyed this incredibly compelling book
I thoroughly enjoyed this incredibly compelling book, and it gripped me from beginning to end.
The author's ability to give you insights into the character's way of thinking and the damage they have endured to their mental health through their lives is something very rare: believable. The empathy that the two richly fleshed out main protagonists evoke makes the book an absolute page turner!

5.0 out of 5 stars this is a good book to take on holiday

A well paced and interesting story, this is a good book to take on holiday. With detailed description and fascinating insights about the life of a gentleman of the road, this book will catch your attention and engage your interest all the way to the dramatic conclusion.