The Broken Places

<p><b>''Sunlit and dark, painful and joyous'' David Mitchell, author of <i>Cloud Atlas</i></b><br><br>In 1931, Gregory Hemingway''s life begins in Kansas City, Missouri. The third and favourite child of an overbearing father, Greg is a paragon: a star athlete, a crack shot, bright and handsome and built like a pocket battleship.<br><br>In 2001, Gloria Hemingway''s life ends in a Miami women''s correctional institution. Complex and contradictory, radiant and resilient, it is a life that has flourished against the odds and been lived to the full.<br><br>Inspired by true events and spanning seventy years of the last century, this is the story of a miraculous existence, told with beauty and compassion. Transporting the reader back and forth in time, from Cuba to New York and Montana to Florida, <i>The Broken Places</i> explores what it means to grow up in the shadow of a man famous for his masculinity, to bear the weight of expectation and a tragic family legacy, and to finally step out into the light.</p>