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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Taproot Press

ISBN: 9781739207700

RRP: £11.99

PUBLICATION DATE:
September 6, 2023

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Connective Tissue

Eleanor Thom

South-West Scotland, 2010. Air-traffic controller Helena’s baby is born with unexplained paralysis. Faced with an unforgiving medical establishment, she turns to the Jewish grandmother she never knew, unfolding the past in search of answers.

Berlin, 1937. Single mother and kitchen hand Dora struggles in a city growing increasingly hostile, with questions being asked of bloodlines and identity. Will she always be alone? And how long will she and her daughter be able to call this home?

Based on extensive research into Eleanor Thom’s lost family history, Connective Tissue is a story of migration, motherhood, and our need to know the people and places that make us.

Reviews of Connective Tissue

'A finely-drawn portrait of family and memory and history – tender and true.' Rachel Seiffert, author of Man Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dark Room

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Eleanor Thom

Eleanor Thom writes fiction and creative non-fiction and lives in Edinburgh. Recurring themes in her work are place, social history, memory, and family life. Her first novel, The Tin-Kin (Duckworth, 2009), won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award, and was featured on BBC TV’S The Culture Show. Since then, Eleanor has had two children, and she completed a PhD in creative writing in 2018. For the past four years, she has been the Community Writer in Residence for The Edinburgh International Book Festival. She likes archives, walking on the beach and up mountains, reading, learning languages, and very long journeys. She also likes playing the violin with her son and cheering on her daughter’s para-swimming team.