Little Town Moone
Will be published approx. on 31. December 2030
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-1-4736-7751-7 (ISBN)
Description
'Caldwell is a savage, audacious and brilliant new female voice' Hot Press
Somewhere in Ireland a young woman takes a risk late one night and ends up dream-scaling the consequences. Caught in the clutches of fear with a dangerous character during a long car journey, she rakes through her past to assess what kind of future she might have had as time, place, memory and meaning begin to dissolve. She arrives at a small house close to a motorway with just the company of other buried women to talk to. Here she fantasises of escape and wonders who might be out looking for her, and builds up the strength to fight back.
Little Town Moone examines what it means to be female in a country with a long history of devaluing women, where misogyny is often overlooked as a cultural by-product of bleaker times. Part-fable, part-thriller, it is a poetic examination of trauma, fortitude and hopefully, liberation.
Somewhere in Ireland a young woman takes a risk late one night and ends up dream-scaling the consequences. Caught in the clutches of fear with a dangerous character during a long car journey, she rakes through her past to assess what kind of future she might have had as time, place, memory and meaning begin to dissolve. She arrives at a small house close to a motorway with just the company of other buried women to talk to. Here she fantasises of escape and wonders who might be out looking for her, and builds up the strength to fight back.
Little Town Moone examines what it means to be female in a country with a long history of devaluing women, where misogyny is often overlooked as a cultural by-product of bleaker times. Part-fable, part-thriller, it is a poetic examination of trauma, fortitude and hopefully, liberation.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Murray Press
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4736-7751-7 (9781473677517)
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June Caldwell has an MA in Creative Writing from Queen's University Belfast. Room Little Darker, her acclaimed collection of short stories, was published by New Island Books in 2017. Her fiction has been published in literary journals including the Stinging Fly and the Long Gaze Back. She is a prize-winner of The Moth International Short Story Prize. Little Town Moone is her first novel.