WINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020
'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls
'A triumph ... the best novel I've read so far this year' Joseph O'Connor
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In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.
Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
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'Here is love as a weapon and a balm ... A gorgeously wrought book' Guardian
'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' Independent
'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' Kathleen MacMahon
'Exquisite ... Beautiful' Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said
'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
- ISBN10 0857525220
- ISBN13 9780857525222
- Publish Date 20 August 2020
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 September 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Doubleday
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 240
- Language English