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Published on 23. April 2012
304 pages
978-1-84840-132-7 (ISBN)
Description
Dublin, summer 1980; Kate Bush is on the radio, Nadia Comaneci is cleaning up at the Olympics and in one house by the Liffey, a spiky but sensitive ten-year-old girl is minding her troubled ma and her two brothers. But when a tragedy splits the family apart, the girl realizes that the only person she can depend on is herself.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
File size
0,72 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-84840-132-7 (9781848401327)
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Nuala Ni Chonchuir is a novelist, short story writer and poet, and lives in Co. Galway with her family. She is the author of four previous novels, including Becoming Belle (2018) and Miss Emily (2015), a reimagining of the life of Emily Dickinson, and six short story collections, her most recent being Joyride to Jupiter (2017). She has won many prizes for her short fiction including the Francis MacManus Award, the James Joyce Quarterly Fiction Contest and the UK's Short Fiction Journal Prize.
Nuala's work has also been nominated for numerous prizes including the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the International Dublin Literary Award. She is editor-in-chief at flash e-zine Splonk.
Nuala's work has also been nominated for numerous prizes including the Edge Hill Short Story Prize, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the International Dublin Literary Award. She is editor-in-chief at flash e-zine Splonk.
Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Title Page
- About the author
- Praise for Nuala Ní Chonchúir
- BOOK ONE
- 1 - Anything Strange Or Startling?
- 2 - A Different Daddy
- 3 - Friends
- 4 - A Party
- 5 - Kit
- 6 - Gwen's gone
- 7 - The Green Merc
- 8 - A Fight
- 9 - The New Baby
- 10 - A Letter
- 11 - Feet
- 12 - Doll Face
- 13 - A Holiday For Your Ma
- 14 - Picnic
- BOOK TWO
- 1 - Dog
- 2 - Funeral
- 3 - Back to the River
- 4 - Another Letter
- 5 - A Plan and A Boat
- 6 - A Visit
- 7 - Bella Larkin
- 8 - In Wales
- 9 - Unhappy Da
- 10 - Seeing your Ma
- 11 - A Homecoming
