Reminiscent of Maeve Binchy's The Glass Lake and Circle of Friends, Beyond the Glen tells the tale of lost innocence in a small Scottish town.Marielle hoped she was leaving the Scottish village of her childhood forever when she and her mother moved to France to get away from Marielle's abusive stepfather. But when Marielle, now a journalist in Paris, returns home to the village and learns that her cherished half-sister Colleen has died in a terrible accident, she is immediately consumed by disturbing memories of that time of hardship and longing ... a time when everything she wished for was tantalizingly out of reach, just beyond the glen. Tracing Colleen's footsteps to understand the mystery of her death, Marielle again finds herself in the clutches of that claustrophobic community, reliving her childhood sense of being an outsider while falling in love with the same man that Colleen loved. Is she living the life that killed her half-sister? Or is she exorcising the demons that have haunted her into adulthood?
