'A dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection' Guardian 'Kennedy's
voice, and her unforgiving gaze, are electric' Sunday Times 'These
stories sing, haunt and inspire laughter ... One of the best
collections I've read in years' Sinead Gleeson A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF
THE YEAR The secrets people kept, the lies they told. In these
visceral, stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to
one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Here, women
are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and
politics loom large, and poverty – material, emotional, sexual –
seeps through every crack. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a
ghost estate, with blood on her hands; a young woman is tormented by
visions of the man murdered by her brother during the Troubles; a
pregnant mother fears the worst as her husband grows illegal cannabis
with the help of a vulnerable teenage girl; a woman struggles to
forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage.
Announcing a major new voice in literary fiction for the twenty-first
century, these sharp shocks of stories offer flashes of beauty, and
even humour, amidst the harshest of truths.
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ISBN
9781526623294
Publisert
2021
Utgave
1. utgave
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Vendor
Bloomsbury Publishing
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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