The rest of the novel is dedicated to the examination of all their different manifestations of trauma and steps toward healing. Then one day, there’s a terrible tragedy, and it destroys pretty much everything they know. Inspired by true events, the story features a set of characters who all live in an apartment complex called Nightingale Point. I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but I’m actually coming to appreciate it even more the longer it sits with me. Nightingale Point was longlisted for the 2020 Women’s Prize, and I’m glad it was, because I’m not sure I would have heard about it or picked it up otherwise. When the sun sets, Nightingale Point is irrevocably changed and somehow, through the darkness, the residents must find a way back to lightness, and back to each other. It's a day like any other, until something extraordinary happens. Pamela wants to run back to Malachi but her overprotective father has locked her in and there's no way out. No wonder he's falling in with the wrong crowd, without Malachi to keep him straight.Įlvis is trying hard to remember to the instructions his care worker gave him, but sometimes he gets confused and forgets things.

Tristan wishes Malachi would stop pining for Pamela. Between looking after Tristan and nursing a broken heart, he feels older than his twenty-one years. Mary has a secret life that no one knows about, not even Malachi and Tristan, the brothers she vowed to look after. On an ordinary Saturday morning in 1996, the residents of Nightingale Point wake up to their normal lives and worries.

Nightingale Point by Luan Goldie