CONNECTIVE TISSUE (TAPROOT PRESS)

Based on extensive research into author Eleanor Thom’s lost family history, Connective Tissue is a novel of migration, motherhood, and our need to know the people and places that make us. South-West Scotland, 2010. Air-traffic controller Helena's baby is born with unexplained paralysis and faced with an unforgiving medical establishment, she turns to the Jewish grandmother she never knew, unfolding the past in search of answers. Berlin, 1937. Single mother and kitchen hand Dora struggles in a city growing increasingly hostile, with questions being asked of bloodlines and identity. Will she always be alone? And how long will she and her daughter be able to call this home?