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
