THE IMMERSIVE AND HEARTFELT EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND LOVE 'A beautiful bittersweet story of
love loss and families. Tears were shed!' GRAHAM NORTON 'A moving and powerful novel' JOHN
BOYNE 'Human graceful and healing a true gift of a novel' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'A beautiful story'
SARAH WINMAN 'Lyrical optimistic and redemptive' CLARE CHAMBERS'Just loved it . . . so moving
on motherhood depression family ties and Ireland' ANNIE MACMANUS __________ On an island off
the west coast of Ireland the Moone family gathers. Maeve is an actor struggling with her
most challenging role yet - as a mother to four children. Murtagh her devoted husband is a
potter whose craft brought them from the city to this rural life. In the wake of one fateful
night the Moone siblings must learn the story of who their parents truly are and what has
happened since their first meeting years before outside Trinity College in Dublin. We watch
as one love story gives rise to another until we arrive at a future that none of the Moones
could have predicted. Except perhaps Maeve herself. The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually is a
celebration of the complex flawed and stubbornly optimistic human heart. __________ Longlisted
for the Guardian's 'Not The Booker' prize PRAISE FOR THE TRUTH MUST DAZZLE GRADUALLY: 'I
devoured this falling in love with the setting and with every character. It is just glorious.
A close-up on the everyday beautiful details that make up love' Emma Flint author of Little
Deaths 'Intensely moving beautifully written and drenched with Irish atmosphere this novel
asks brave and thoughtful questions about mental health' Daily Mail 'Loved it. Beautiful and
original' Sunday Independent 'Cullen is a thoughtful writer and she dissects the stubborn
optimism of the human heart with skill and sympathy' Irish Independent 'A perfect combination
of deeply-felt tragedy with great hopefulness' Anne Youngson author of Meet me at the Museum
'Masterfully constructed. A book of rare quality' i Paper 'A beautifully observed saga of
abandoned dreams loss and self-discovery. A fabulous creation' Alan McGonagle author of
Ithaca 'So wonderful on the Irish family and the utter complexity of motherhood family
entanglement and love. I was full on weeping at the end' Elaine Feeney author of As You Were
