Una Mannion

Deena Garvey disappeared in 2004. She left behind a daughter and a sister. Deena's daughter grows up in the country. She learns how to hunt, when to seed the garden, how to avoid making her father angry. Never to ask about her absent mother. Deena's sister stays stuck in the city, getting desperate. She knows the man responsible for her...

Rage. That's the feeling engulfing the car as Ellen's mother swerves over to the hard-shoulder and orders her daughter out onto the roadside. Ignoring the protests of her other children, she accelerates away, leaving Ellen standing on the gravel verge in her school pinafore and knee socks as the light fades. What would you do as you watch your little...

Beautiful, haunting. - LOUISE KENNEDY Vividly real . . . There's love here as well as pain. - MARIAN KEYES A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing. - IRISH TIMES I loved it. - LIZ NUGENT Please don't hang up. I don't know if you remember. You used to live with me. You and your mother. Ruby...