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The Story
'She would burrow deep
inside herself, like the African fish that burrows into
the mud when the river bed dries up, and survives there
in clay hardened to stone until the rains come again to
release it.'
In a country town in
Ireland young Mary Ennis is growing up in her shadow of
her parents' loveless marriage. Her pious mother is a
pillar of the local community; her father is a
prosperous shopkeeper. But behind this image of
respectability there lies a dark, dangerous secret.
A powerful, harrowing
story of sexual abuse, The Fish in the Stone challenges
the taboos of silence and ignorance surrounding incest.
Through its intense exploration of the relationship
between Mary and her father, it shatters the abuser's
defences of self-deceit and emotional blackmail, moving
relentlessly to a terrible, haunting climax
Published
by BlackStaff Press, 1990 - Buy
at Amazon
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