Mirror Lake

'A stunning accomplishment, Mirror Lake reaffirms the true power of love and its resounding ability to transform the human heart' NELSON DEMILLE

A story of love, betrayal, and violence that kept me turning the pages to the end

A beautiful piece of writing - infused with the themes of family, death, loyalty, and romantic love - I think we're going to hear a lot more about this very fine novelist

A taut psychological drama that carried me through from first page to last - a voice that can render exquisitely the sharpest truths of the human heart and the finest details of a passing landscape all at once

Mirror Lake is a strong and gentle book about friendship, loneliness, and the transcendent stubbornness of the human heart. A sweet, sad story, full of surprises and resonant of the green mountains and clear waters of Vermont

John Hough, Jr., author of THE LAST SUMMER

A stunning accomplishment, Mirror Lake reaffirms the true power of love and its resounding ability to transform the human heart

Thomas Christopher Greene was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1968. He graduated from Hobart College and the MFA in Writing Program at Vermont College. He currently lives and writes in Vermont.

My name is Nathan Carter. Let me say that even though this story does not concern me - not directly anyway - I feel an obligation to tell it, because it was told to me, and it is the type of story that needs to be told... 
 
So begins this powerful tale of love, loss and redemption, drawing us into the small town of Eden, Vermont, and into the complex lives of two very different men. Nathan Carter is a young man in love with falling in love. A serial monogamist, he flits from woman to woman until, as yet another relationship disintegrates, he leaves his busy Boston lifestyle behind him and drives north to the small town of Eden. 
 
There he meets Wallace Fiske: a man at the end of his life. A man with a story to tell. And as the surly, gruff Wallace starts to tell Nathan his story - the story of Nora, the woman he loved from the moment he first set eyes on her, the story of the man Wallace used to be - the two men become friends. It's a friendship - and a story - that will change Nathan forever...

Thomas Christopher Greene

Moving ... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy'

They were brothers and they knew each other better than they had ever known anybody, and when you are like this you can sit in silence and not speak and it is the most comfortable thing in the world. But fate can fracture even the strongest of friendships. 
 
In the lush green countryside of Vermont, Charlie has built a life for himself. He is happy enough running the small family restaurant and his only regret is the absence of his brother, Owen. Once close, Owen and Charlie have not seen each other for many years - the ties of brotherhood torn apart by their father's legacy - and a trail of postcards is all that is left. 
 
Charlie's is a solitary existence until he hires Claire to assist him in the restaurant and suddenly life feels complete. In Claire, Charlie feels he has found his reason for living. But when Owen returns it seems that the past is destined to threaten both brothers' future...

Thomas Christopher Greene

Praise for After The Rain

Moving ... Greene's evocative descriptions of nature, food and love infuse this novel with sensuality and a nostalgia-tinged melancholy'

Books by Thomas Christopher Greene

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