Grace can see everything her family cannot. She sees the cracks forming in her parents' marriage long before anyone else admits they are there. She sees the pressure building in her brother in the months before he ends up in a hospital bed. She sees the way the church her father leads has become something different from what it started as, and the way nobody inside it is allowed to say so.
What she cannot do is make anyone believe her.
Love Lifted Me is a novel about the particular loneliness of the person who sees clearly in a world that has agreed to look the other way. About faith tested not by doubt but by the gap between what religion promises and what it delivers. About the cost of love when love requires you to stay in a burning room and keep speaking the truth nobody wants to hear.
Set against the backdrop of a prominent church community, it is also a story about what happens when the performance finally breaks, and what is left in the silence after.
Synopsis
When Grace's brother Marcus collapses and is admitted to hospital, the family crisis forces into the open everything that has been managed and suppressed for years. As her father's congregation watches from the outside, Grace must navigate the tension between loyalty and honesty, between the faith she inherited and the faith she is choosing, and between the love that holds families together and the truth that sometimes sets them free.
