Kirjahaku

Meeting your new partner's family can be something of a trial. Certainly, Geoff's equanimity is ruffled when Lee's dad, at their first encounter, outlines plans to have him assassinated if he betrays her trust, and even that seems pretty reasonable compared with her mum's reaction. Of course, Geoff is level-headed enough to ignore the suggestion that he has a dormant gift of healing. Until Lee's father is rushed into hospital...The hospital visit unleashes a chain of events that drive him to doubt everything he knows about himself and about those around him; everything, that is, except his unconditional bond with Lee. Will this single certainty prove strong enough to guide his most critical decisions when surrounded by ambiguity, by observations whose meaning seems to shift, like Rorschach ink blots, depending on who tries to interpret them, and when?

Nicholas Duval, currently seeking a Post Doc placement that might lead into an academic career, has a temporary position as a Teaching Assistant in a university Mathematics Department. His chance encounter with a stressed American exchange student studying in a different Department, whom he seeks to help out of natural sympathy, leads to their discovery of uncanny similarities between their childhood experiences. As they try to make sense of this shared history amidst the pressures and challenges of university life, a sudden nuclear confrontation in the Middle East throws them together in ways that neither of them anticipated. Then Nicholas' uncle arrives with a communication device seemingly decades ahead of current technology which connects them - both physically and metaphorically - to the rest of his family: the part that Nicholas barely knows but which now desperately needs the dormant skills of which he is unaware. 'The gift does not come without need nor without peril - take heed: what you give, you may give away.'

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