CHARLIE REGAN S LIFE ISN T GOING FORWARD, SO SHE S DECIDED TO GO BACK.
* A perfect page-turner. I loved it DOLLY ALDERTON * Wonderful MARIAN KEYES *
A gorgeous exploration of the messy and fragile nature of friendship and all the many forms of love, as well as of the primal need we all have to belong IRISH TIMES
After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father s health rapidly decline, Charlie and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the west coast of Ireland. She knows this could be the last chance to connect with her dad s history before she loses him.
But when the girls arrive, Charlie begins to question both her difficult relationship with Laura and her father s childhood stories. Before long, she s embroiled in a devastating conspiracy that s been sixty years in the making . . . and it s up to her to reveal the truth.
***Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize***
One of the most intelligent, well observed depictions of lust, loss, envy, betrayal, friendship and love that I ve ever read DAISY BUCHANAN
A moving and extremely funny look at family, roots and the myth of Irishness THE i, ESSENTIAL SUMMER READS
Witty, tender and insightful . . . O Donoghue is a perceptive, clever writer GUARDIAN
A darkly humorous, keenly observed blend of millennial drift and murder mystery from a razor-sharp writer RED
About the Author
Caroline O Donoghue is an Irish author, journalist and host of the award-nominated podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has contributed to Grazia, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Buzzfeed, Vice and The Times. On publication of her first novel, Promising Young Women, in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year and the Kate O Brien Award. Her second adult novel, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, was published in 2020 and was longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize. All Our Hidden Gifts, her first novel for young adults, was published by Walker in 2021. She was born in Cork but currently lives in London with her partner and a terrier with chronic eye problems.
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