'What’s more powerful – the right to life or the right to love?
'Delphi Hoffman, a wildchild living in London is finally getting her somewhat deliciously messy life together with a new love affair and the offer of a coveted job – until she receives the phone call she hoped would never arrive.
‘It’s time.’
'Her mother Inica’s terminal illness has reached its tipping point and she summons Delphi to Australia to help her euthanise. Unable to deny her mother’s suffering, or her promise to her of a good death, Delphi reluctantly returns to her mother for the last time.
'This is a story of the ties that enmesh in love and death, and the journey back to self in its aftermath. As Delphi is blown onto the wasteland of grief and shame, she has to discover where life ends and she begins amidst the atomic fallout her actions have unleashed.'
Source : publisher's blurb
'Where the Light Gets In is Zoë Coyle’s debut novel and, much like its protagonist, it’s messy. Delphi is 26, living in London, and her life is just starting to slot into place. She’s met a guy and, after struggling to find a job after art school, has just had a really promising interview. Then her terminally ill mother calls with the words she’s been dreading – it is time. Delphi drops everything to head to Tasmania and fulfil her pledge to help her mother die on her own terms.' (Introduction)
'Where the Light Gets In is Zoë Coyle’s debut novel and, much like its protagonist, it’s messy. Delphi is 26, living in London, and her life is just starting to slot into place. She’s met a guy and, after struggling to find a job after art school, has just had a really promising interview. Then her terminally ill mother calls with the words she’s been dreading – it is time. Delphi drops everything to head to Tasmania and fulfil her pledge to help her mother die on her own terms.' (Introduction)
