From the award-winning Booker longlisted author of the number one bestseller STRANGE FLOWERS
a searing jubilant novel about four generations of women and the love and stories that bind
them. 'One of the finest novelists writing today... a haunting exquisite masterpiece.' RACHEL
JOYCE 'A generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and
family' COLUM McCANN The Aylward women are mad about each other but you wouldn't always think
it. You'd have to know them to know - in spite of what the neighbours might say about raised
voices and dramatic scenes - that their house is a place of peace filled with love a refuge
from the sadness and cruelty of the world. Their story begins at an end and ends at a
beginning. It's a story of terrible betrayals and fierce loyalties of isolation and
togetherness of transgression forgiveness desire and love. About all the things family can
be and all the things it sometimes isn't. More than anything it is an uplifting celebration of
fierce loyal love and the powerful stories that last generations. _________ 'His paragraphs
are unnoticeably beautiful his heart always on show' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Endlessly surprising and
incredibly moving' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A life-enhancing talent' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'I would struggle
to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal
Ryan' LOUISE O'NEILL
