Navigation

Hearts and Bones : Love Songs for Late Youth

Availability: Out of Stock
ISBN: 9781529079920
AuthorMulvey, Niamh
Pub Date23/06/2022
CountryIRL
Dewey
Publisher: Picador
Quick overview Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it. A young woman learns to wield her power, leaving casualties in her wake, while a man from a small town finds solace in a strange new hobby.
€17.51

A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world. First-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true.

Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did. Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey's debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we've brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.

*
*
*
Product description

A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world. First-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true.

Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did. Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey's debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we've brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.

Customers who bought this item also bought

Life Before Us

Meaney, Roisin
9781529355680
The new novel from the Number One Bestselling author about chance and falling in love.
€16.35

The Furies

Connolly, John
9781529391756
Two novels in one from the master of the modern supernatural thriller.
€17.49

The Hotel Nantucket

Hilderbrand, Elin
9781399709958
Combining Elin Hilderbrand's trademark emotion and escapism with generations of secrets and scandals, Hotel Nantucket is a beach book unlike any other from 'Queen of the Summer Novel' (People).
€17.57