*WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS- NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 *
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZE AND JOHN McGAHERN PRIZE 2025*
*A WATERSTONES AND BA INDIE BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2025*
'A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful' SUNDAY TIMES
'I loved this novel ... An addictive read' GILLIAN ANDERSON
'Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel' SARAH WINMAN
'A beautiful, accomplished debut' LOUISE KENNEDY
It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley- the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her family to be with a married man in Dublin.
Returning to pick up the pieces of her old life, Colette finds that nothing and everything has changed. When the man to whom she is still married denies her access to their children, Colette enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey one towards a path of self-discovery, and the other towards tragedy.
A WOMAN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024
