The hatreds and loves hidden in ordinary lives, carved from the backgrounds of urban and rural mindscapes. They contain the life spirits and losses of people as changes arrive oddly. Nothing is simple. Life as we wish it to be might not be so.
'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time... will linger with you long after the book is closed' Claire Kilroy, Guardian On a bitterly cold winter's afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous.
A Book to Look Out for in 2023 in the Irish Times, RTE Guide and the Sunday Independent. A sweeping and unforgettable interwar love story, from the Costa-shortlisted and bestselling Irish author of Life Sentences
A frightened girl bangs on a door. A man answers. From the moment he invites her in, his world will never be the same again. She will tell him about her family, and their strange life in the show home of an abandoned housing estate.
Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man takes a job driving a haulage lorry through France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails.
This gripping crime fiction debut by one of Ireland's former leading crime detectives, Gerry O'Carroll, follows Detectives Moss Quinn and Joe Doyle in a race against time to find Quinn's abducted wife.