The Woman Behind the Waterfall by Leonora Meriel

The Woman Behind the Waterfall by Leonora Meriel

Heartbreak and transformation in the beauty of a Ukrainian village

For seven-year old Angela, happiness is exploring the lush countryside around her home in western Ukraine. Her wild imagination takes her into birds and flowers, and into the waters of the river.
All that changes when, one morning, she sees her mother crying. As she tries to find out why, she is drawn on an extraordinary journey into the secrets of her family, and her mother's fateful choices.
Can Angela lead her mother back to happiness before her innocence is destroyed by the shadows of a dark past?

Beautiful, poetic and richly sensory, this is a tale that will haunt and lift its readers.

A strange and beautiful novel - Esther Freud, author of Mr Mac and Me, Hideous Kinky, Peeless Flats

Readers looking for a classic tale of love and loss will be rewarded with an intoxicating world - Kirkus Reviews

Rich and poetic in detail, it is an often dreamy, oneiric narrative rooted in an exaltation of nature. A lovely novel - IndieReader

Kirkus Reviews dubbed Leonora Meriel's work The Unity Game (released May 2017 by Granite Cloud) an ambitious and thought-provoking novel. Writer Esther Freud described her debut novel The Lady Beyond the Waterfall (October 2016) as odd and lovely, a literary work of art by Richmond Magazine, and an intoxicating universe by Kirkus Reviews. She is one of a small number of independent authors picked by Waterstones, the UK's largest book retailer, to be carried across the country. Leonora is a London native who has also resided in New York, Kiev, and Barcelona. She worked in business and subsequently as an entrepreneur before dedicating herself entirely to literature. Her whole biography can be found at www.leonorameriel.com.