Names

A moving novel about domestic violence, complex family relationships and healing. The year is 1987. Cora goes with her nine-year-old daughter Maia to register the birth of her son. Her husband Gordon, local doctor, a respected man in the community, at home a terrifying and despotic tyrant, He wants to, to name the baby after him. When the registrar asks what she would like to name the child, Cora hesitates... Thirty-five years of three alternative versions of Cora's life and the family's life, influenced by a single choice of name, follow.