'Huge of heart and soaring of soul' CLAIRE KILROY 'A profound love story...Like Barbara
Kingsolver Hickey captures the pulse of the living moment' COLUM McCANN 1979. In the vast and
often unforgiving city of London two Irish outsiders seeking refuge find one another: Milly a
teenage runaway and Pip a young boxer full of anger and potential who is beginning to drink
it all away. Over the decades their lives follow different paths interweaving from time to
time often in one another's sight always on one another's mind yet rarely together. Forty
years on Milly is clinging onto the only home she's ever really known while Pip haunted by
T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land traipses the streets of London and wrestles with the life of the
recovering alcoholic. And between them perhaps uncrossable lies the unspoken span of their
lives. Dark and brave this epic novel offers a rich and moving portrait of an ever-changing
city and a profound inquiry into character loneliness and the nature of love.
