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An exquisitely talented young Irish writer makes her literary debut with this powerful and haunting novel—a tale of love and family, depression and joy, and coming of age in the twenty-first century t…

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One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in her suburban home, and without conscious purpose, walks out the front door to begin a journey that ulti…

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An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart

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The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff?

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In an apartment building in Belfast, two women wrestle with the sorrows and spectres of love and loss.

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In one moment, two lives will be changed forever ... and forever ... and forever.The one thing that's certain is that they met on a Cambridge street by chance and felt a connection that would last a l…

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From the author of the award-winning Saltwater comes a beautifully told love story set across England, France and Spain.

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Disappoint Me

An electrifying story of love, betrayal, and the complicated allure of bougie domesticity.

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For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast of intricately linked characters during a heatwave in London as simmering tensions and secrets come t…

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Tennis Lessons

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For readers of THE COWS, SWEETBITTER or CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIENDS - as well as for fans of FLEABAG or SEARCH PARTY - Caroline O'Donoghue's debut is a gothic, darkly witty novel about sex, power, work…

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