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The Coast Road

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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 ‘A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘I loved this novel ... An addictive read’ GILLIAN ANDERSON ‘Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel’ SARAH... Read More
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The Coast Road

A brilliantly observed debut novel about two women in a small Irish community in 1994 – the year before divorce was made legal

A brilliantly observed debut novel about two women in a small Irish community in 1994 – the year before divorce was made legal

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WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024

‘A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘I loved this novel ... An addictive read’ GILLIAN ANDERSON

‘Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel’ SARAH WINMAN

‘A beautiful, accomplished debut’ LOUISE KENNEDY

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley: the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her family to be with a married man in Dublin.

Returning to pick up the pieces of her old life, Colette finds that nothing – and everything – has changed. When the man to whom she is still married denies her access to their children, Colette enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey – one towards a path of self-discovery, and the other towards tragedy.

A WOMAN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781526663689

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 May 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 220g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Alan Murrin is an Irish fiction writer based in Berlin. In 2021 he was the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for his short story “The Wake”, which went on to be shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. He is the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia. His work was featured as part of the New Irish Writing series in the Irish Independent. His work has been short-listed for the Irish Arts and Writers Festival short story prize, the New Irish Writing in Germany Prize, and he was long-listed for the 2021 University of Essex International short story prize. He writes for the Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement and Spectator. His writing on art and photography has appeared in Art Review and The White Review.

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