Rebecca Grey searches for greater meaning in her life than worrying about her mother. Redemption is possible, but one of them may never recover.
After a weird hallucinatory experience during a severe illness Rebecca Grey, an artistic, resilient nearly-eighteen year old is left with a haunting feeling of loss.
She spends the summer searching for something she didn’t even know she needed, a sense of self.
In an echo of Miss Haversham in Great Expectations, Rebecca’s mother Bex has ‘stopped all the clocks’ at the point the love of her life was snatched away. She calls it her Great Grief and Rebecca has lived with it as long as she can remember, as familiar a companion as her mother’s alcoholism that she deals with on a day to day basis.
A visit to Ireland changes Rebecca’s perspective on everything. Becoming part of a wider family and the promise of love offers redemption but who is the ‘ghost boy’ intruding every time she starts getting closer to Connor?
Bex is rapidly descending into hell but there is something that can save her. It turns out to be the very dream Rebecca needs to give up if she is ever going to fulfil her true potential and live a normal life.