John Boyne Collection (Water, Earth, Fire, Air & The Elements) 5 Books Set - Fiction - Hardback

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Water\u003cbr\u003e2. Earth\u003cbr\u003e3. Fire\u003cbr\u003e4. Air\u003cbr\u003e5. The Elements\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWater\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eThe first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEscaping her old life might seem like a good idea but the choices she has made throughout her marriage have consequences. Here, on the island, Vanessa must reflect on what she did - and did not do. 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Was she born with cruelty in her heart or did something force it into being?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAir\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eBeing in limbo, 30,000 feet in the air, offers time to reflect and take stock. For Aaron Umber, it’s an opportunity to connect with his 14-year-old son as they travel halfway across the world to meet a woman who isn’t expecting them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnsettled by his past, and anxious for his future, Aaron is at a crossroads in life. The damage inflicted upon him during his youth has made him the man he is, but now threatens to widen the growing fissures between him and his only child. 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They sustain us, but they also challenge us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Elements, John Boyne has created a vivid kaleidoscope to reflect that contradiction: a quartet of intertwined narratives, each providing a different perspective on cause and effect from the points of view of the enabler, the accomplice, the perpetrator and the victim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom a mother on the run from her past, to a young football star on trial, a successful surgeon grappling with childhood trauma, and finally a father on a transformative journey with his son, the four strands weave together to form a tapestry of intersecting lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoyne’s most ambitious work yet, The Elements is both an engrossing drama and a moving examination of the fault lines inherent to human experience. 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