Come Sunday is the debut novel by South African ex-patriot Isla Morley, who lives in California. Abbe grew up in apartheid South Africa while the country was rumbling painfully toward progressive reform and revolution. The daughter of an alcoholic, controlling, malicious, violent and abusive father and a mother whose spirit, heart and family are broken and trampled down to dust by her husband and unhappy marriage, Abbe fell for the opposite type of man for her husband: Greg. A methodist preacher-man, Greg lives his life by the tenets of Christ: forgiving, quiet, dispassionate and forever turning the other cheek and refusing to fight back. Now a wife and mother and years into her marriage Abbe longs for passion and a reprieve from the boredom that permeates her marriage and her life in idyllic Hawaii where her husband shepherds a reluctant and increasingly mutinous flock. Upon returning to a friend's house where they left their three year old daughter whi...
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