*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
