Shona Clingham

Blood’s Veil — Shona Clingham. Book cover for Blood's Veil, a novel. Tagline at the top reads: for family, we blind ourselves but secrets don't stay buried. Above the main title is a silhouette of a dormant tree which is reflected in large scale behind and beneath the title representing roots. The author's name is at the bottom.

CONTEMPORARY FICTION
First published in 2016
This Edition published in 2025
Contains swearing and themes of abuse

 

Blood’s Veil

 

Blood may be thicker than water… but does it outlast truth?

 

When Ella’s mother suddenly dies, Ella and her adoptive sister Brooke return home: a remote island in the Atlantic. But reliving the past is hard, and island life is like stepping back in time. Now, Ella’s father, Hank, is in prison, and something on the island has triggered a fear in Brooke that she has long since tried to bury.

As past and present collide with old flames and new love, and a truth insisting on escape, Brooke and Ella’s sisterly bond is tested and the veil of family ties — blood’s veil — begins to finally lift.

 

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A silver metal rose in partial shadow on a grey and dark pink gradient background with a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: There was only one other person who knew this side of her… The one who had created it...

 

 

A silver metal rose in partial shadow on a grey and dark pink gradient background with a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: The one who made her secretly loathe herself, made her feel used and dirty and broken—like tarnished scraps of silver...

 

 

A silver metal rose in partial shadow on a grey and dark pink gradient background with a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: These night-time reminders made her too aware that like those silver scraps…

 

 

A silver metal rose in partial shadow on a grey and dark pink gradient background with a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: …even if she were somehow melded into something whole…

 

 

A silver metal rose in partial shadow on a grey and dark pink gradient background with a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: …she would be ‘new’. Never the same as she once was. Never unbroken.

 

 

Light blue water with a ripple and slightly transparent clock faces creating a vortex illusion and a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham in a circular position along one of the ripples. The quote reads: Island life was like stepping back in time.

 

 

A dark room and a door opened only an inch casting light across a wooden floor and a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham on the left-hand side. The quote reads: Every night she wished for morning, for the light. It always came too late.

 

 

Close up shards of broken glass in mid-air with a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham on the left-hand side. The quote reads: Something inside her broke.

 

 

A dark grey textured background with white lillies on the right hand side and a quote on the left from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: The guilt was a life-sized weight around her neck.

 

 

A watercolour-style skyscape with sunrise colours and a quote on the left from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: The dawn cast itself over the Atlantic, impossibly beautiful against tragedy.

 

 

Close up of a ripple in water with a separated droplet in mid air and a quote from Blood's Veil by Shona Clingham. The quote reads: The pain was more real now for having released it.

 

 

PREVIOUS EDITIONS

 

Previous 2016 book cover for Blood’s Veil by Shona Clingham. Previously published under author's married name.

Previous 2017 book cover for Blood’s Veil by Shona Clingham. Previously published under author's married name.

 

About Shona Clingham

Female, 40s, mother, writer, artist.

Author of Immisceo and Blood’s Veil.

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Disclaimer: Blood’s Veil and related creative content are works of fiction by Shona Clingham. Names, characters, businesses, places, and events are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.