Bøger af Toby Brookes

The most important piece of art Matthew Banks ever created was an urn for his mother's ashes. When it is accidentally dropped to the floor, he realizes his life is similarly shattered. His father has reappeared after a fifteen-year absence, insisting on joining Matthew's ceramics business, and thus begins a fraught working relationship with disastrous results. Stuck in the studio inside the massive hacienda bequeathed to him by his mother, Matthew must face a continuing onslaught of challenges, not the least being the sudden appearance of a woman from his past, bearing their love child and demanding his commitment. In this story of changing fortunes laced with silver linings, we follow the struggle of an artist learning what it takes to nurture more than just his God-given talent.

Toby Brookes' novel "All That She Brings" follows the young troubled life of Matthew Banks, happily married for three years until his wife dies in a fiery crash. Deep in grief, he finds letters chronicling an affair and is sent into a tailspin of anger and disillusionment. He flees his home in New Haven after receiving therapy from his company's psychiatrist. Landing at his family's homestead in Pasadena, he faces more trauma with an ill mother and an estranged father who appears mysteriously. His only source of hope comes from a homeless prophet on the beach who steers him toward a brighter future.