The Second Skater of the Apocalypse

With both realism and humor, this heartwarming novel describes the joys and the challenges of a modern English family. Like its prequel, My Family and Other Skaters, it features the ups, the downs, and the sometimes hilarious mishaps of six figure-skating brothers and sisters. In this story, the family’s joy and resilience are put to the test during the COVID pandemic.

Fiorella De Maria, is an Anglo-Maltese writer living in Surrey, England, studied English Literature at the University of Cambridge. A winner of the National Book Prize of Malta, she has published eleven other books with Ignatius Press, including A Most Dangerous Innocence, We’ll Never Tell Them, and the Father Gabriel Mystery series.