Ultimately the biggest quibble with this entire effort isn’t Hawker’s writing, but the actual description of the book – which leads one to believe certain aspects arguably happen sooner than they do.

Hawker sucks you in, weaving these plot threads near and around each other before bringing them all together to grand effect. And yet, again, the way Hawker executes it here is utterly beautiful in its prose and storytelling. Particularly in their showing of the worse sides of Mormon life, complete with overbearing and hypocritical fathers, this reads almost like as much an attack on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as the character study that it is. Ultimately, this book reads like a more evocative, more painting quality version of the somewhat similar story David Duchovny created in Truly Like Lightning, even as it seems that both authors were working on these works for quite a number of years. Hawker has a way of painting pictures with words that are utterly beautiful, and yet also utterly ugly at the same time. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.Complicated Yet Beautiful. Now it's time for them all to break free of the past, overcome the unforgivable, and find a new way forward-whatever the price. Upsetting the precarious balance in the Rigby home, Linda becomes an unwitting catalyst for the upheaval of Gad's oppression. She also becomes privy to a secret Aran and Tamsin share that could dismantle everything everyone holds dear. But when they fall in love, Linda is drawn into a family more damaged than the one she left behind. She's quickly taken with Aran, in no small part because of his talent. Arriving in Rexburg is Linda Duff, an outsider from Seattle hoping to plant new roots far from the bitter ones of her childhood.

They have dreams beyond their small town. But Aran and Tamsin are united in rebellion against their father. Gad is the kind of man who soothes the failures of his own life by controlling the lives of others. In the town of Rexburg, Idaho, aspiring artist Aran Rigby, his younger sister, Tamsin, and their two brothers are locked in orbit around their emotionally abusive father. A powerful novel about the expectations of family-and the risks and liberation of defying them-by the Washington Post bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow.

The rise of light by olivia hawker