| A story told with clear-eyed compassion and quiet intelligence about what it is to grow up and grow away, about the difference between ‘here’ and ‘home’. — Anne Enright, Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Gathering Solace is a novel of quiet power, filled with moments of carefully-told truth. Elegant, consuming and richly inspired. A superb debut. Heartfelt without ever being sentimental…Outstanding. Powerful and beautifully paced. It’s a revealing portrait of contemporary Irish life with a cast of convincing, complicated, real characters. I was totally gripped. It is a remarkable debut. She has the ability to reveal deep and complex emotions with extraordinary simplicity.
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