EAN: 9781529924138

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

'The undisputed laureate of ordinary lives' SUNDAY TIMES'A brilliant one-of-a-kind writer' DAVID NICHOLLS* * *At sixty-six Paula Spencer - mother grandmother widow survivor - is finally living her life. A job at the dry cleaners she enjoys a man - Joe - with whom she shares what she wants friends who see her for who she is and four grown children. Despite its ghosts Paula has started to push her past aside. That is until Paula's eldest Nicola turns up on her doorstep. Independent a loving wife and mother "a success" - Nicola is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. Over the next few days as Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis mother and daughter find themselves untangling anecdotes jokes memory and revelation to confront the bruised but beautiful symmetry of what each means to the other. * * *'His best yet...full of energy and life' OBSERVER'Reading [Paula Spencer's] voice for the first time sent a pang of recognition through me followed by love' ANNE ENRIGHT'Storytelling genius' i NEWSSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2024

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