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Where The Fire Started
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ISBN13: 9798232482602
Publisher: Laura Carpenter
Published: Oct 16 2025
Pages: 380
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Publisher: Laura Carpenter
Published: Oct 16 2025
Pages: 380
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.85 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
After a barn fire, Ivy Doyle returns to her seaside hometown to keep her niece, Wren, safe. In a drawer she finds old cassette tapes-women from before speaking into the dark about what they witnessed and what they left alone. As Ivy listens, the present tilts: trespasses repeat, apologies arrive too late, and Wren knows more than a child should. The mystery isn't who lit the match, but why everyone kept passing it along.
Where the Fire Started is a lyrical, unsentimental novel about witness and repair-the ordinary bravery it takes to keep someone safe-and the fierce hope that survives after harm. For readers of Celeste Ng, Tana French, Claire Keegan, and Sarah Winman. Themes: witness & consent; intergenerational care; small-town complicity; community repair. Content guidance: non-graphic domestic harm, fire, grief.
Tagline: A town that keeps passing the match. A woman who won't.
Tagline: A town that keeps passing the match. A woman who won't.
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