A gripping, gritty and wholly compelling love story by Joanne Fedler, author of Secret Mothers' Business.
'And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.'
At thirty-four, Faith Battaglia isn't so different from most women her age: okay, her cleavage is rather disappointing and she's still single. But she has a busy and demanding job, the usual dysfunctional family, a clinically depressed best friend, and a younger sister who is getting breast implants as an engagement present. Despite all of which, most days, she still manages to hold it together.
Faith used to think about falling in love. But that was a long time ago.
It's not like she doesn't want to see the good in the world, it's just that the bad keeps showing up on the other side of her desk day in and day out. Having heard one too many love-gone-wrong stories and prepared one too many women for cross-examination, Faith is worn thin by her work as a legal counsellor in a women's crisis centre. So it's hard not to give up on the big things, like love, hope and trust. In fact for now, Faith would be happy just to find a spare minute to get a decent haircut, never mind meet a halfway normal bloke.
Then one night an odd twist of fate finds Faith wringing out years of unshed tears in a suburban veterinary clinic. It is a night that will slowly change the way she sees herself, and begin the unearthing of long-buried family secrets; a night that will allow Faith to finally understand what she has always needed to know: that before you can save others you have to save yourself.
A beautifully written, big-hearted love story that grabs you by the scruff of the neck and will not let you go, Things Without a Name will resonate with anyone who's ever thought about giving up, but chooses not to.
