By Morag Joss (Alma Books, price not available)
Three central characters in the novel are experiencing some sort of crisis in their lives.
Ron has just been released from jail. He served time for causing an accident that led to the death of a group of school children. Anabel is married to a man she met online. Things have headed south because she is pregnant.
Sylvia is an illegal Polish immigrant who lives with her husband and child in an abandoned caravan.
When a bridge collapses in the Scottish Highlands these three characters are thrown together in testing circumstances. Courage and sanity are put to the test with surprising results.
Across the Bridge is about how fate causes the lives of people to converge in extraordinary ways. – Meneesha Govender