NIGHTINGALE POINT BY LUAN GOLDIE
HARDBACK PUBLISHED BY HARPER COLLINS
On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries.
Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after.
Malachi had to grow up too quickly. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years.
Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. No wonder he’s falling in with the wrong crowd, without Malachi to keep him straight.
Elvis is trying hard to remember to the instructions his care worker gave him, but sometimes he gets confused and forgets things.
Pamela wants to run back to Malachi but her overprotective father has locked her in and there’s no way out.
It’s a day like any other, until something extraordinary happens. When the sun sets, Nightingale Point is irrevocably changed and somehow, through the darkness, the residents must find a way back to lightness, and back to each other.
MY REVIEW
The author Luan Goldie has based Nightingale point on the devastating carnage of on the 4th October 1992 a cargo plane crashed into two high rise flats in Bijlmer, Amsterdam, killing up to forty seven people.
Also Nightingale point brings into another yet devastating event when the Grenfell Towers burned down in our own country, where most very sadly the people felt they were not being listened to.
Nightingale point is a fictional place, you really get to feel people’s emotions after losing everything during an extremely bad and sad event that occurs. The aftermath in Nightingale Point leaves this place in such a bad way that their homes and place will never be the same again. The author has got every detail right of the carnage, of people’s shouts and cries for help.
This book Nightingale Point will win readers hearts throughout the Goodreads community.
ABOUT AUTHOR LUAN GOLDIE
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Luan Goldie was born in Glasgow but has lived in East London for most of her life.
She is a primary school teacher, and formerly a business journalist. She is the winner of the Costa Short Story Award 2017 for her story ‘Two Steak Bakes and Two Chelsea Buns’. Her short stories have also been long and short listed by Spread the Word and the Grazia/Women’s Prize First Chapter competition.
Nightingale Point is her debut novel.
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