Adam's Peak

On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each turns away — Clare to the shelter of the garden sprinkler, Rudy to the excitement of his brotherís impending birth. Twenty-five years later, Clare and Rudy, strangers living continents apart, fixtures of each otherís memories and imaginations, are connected again. Overturning the guarded, insular lives they both lead, two events — one an accident, the other an act of terror — transform them both and bind the Vantwest and Fraser families irrevocably.Adam's Peak weaves back and forth between a Montreal suburb and a Colombo private school, between a Ceylon tea estate at the end of the Second World War and a small Scottish town in the early 1960s, its characters struggling desperately to come to terms with themselves and with their powerful connections to the people and places they have tried to escape.Review"Heather Burt's first novel is an unequivocal success." "Oddly moving because it is a strangely spectacular ordinariness that tips over into the transcendental here."From the Inside FlapClare and Rudy struggle to come to terms with themselves and with powerful connections to people and places they have tried desperately to escape.