The Marble Collector

By Cecelia Ahern

Subjects: Family secrets, Collectors and collecting, Fiction, general, Fathers and daughters, Families, Marbles (Game), Fiction, Self-actualization (Psychology) in women

Description: The story of a woman who discovers a collection of marbles in her father's belongings. On learning that part of the collection is missing, she embarks on a quest to relocate the missing marbles to complete the collection and also to understand and complete the picture of a man she realises she never fully knew. As she uncovers the story of a damaged childhood, she also comes to understand what is missing in herself.