From the National Book Award-winning author comes a luminous, deeply humane novel about three generations of an Irish immigrant family in 1940s and 1950s Brooklyn – for fans of Anne Tyler, Anne Enright and Colm Tóibín
Alice McDermott is the award-winning author of seven previous novels: Someone (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 and longlisted for the National Book Award 2013), After This, Child of My Heart, Charming Billy (winner of the National Book Award 1998), At Weddings and Wakes, That Night and A Bigamist’s Daughter. She has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize three times, and has also been nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. She lives with her family outside Washington DC.
McDermott’s highly crafted writing – her poised sentences, finely
wrought imagery, intricate structuring and emotionally laden detail
– is not just clever, but poignant
*Sunday Times*
Prose that can feel almost physically radiant … Any emotional turn
brings a chance in light, often imbued with a sense of grace ...
McDermott is an extraordinary writer
*Sunday Telegraph*
Alice McDermott deserves to be far better known in the UK … In
McDermott’s stripped-down prose, details as commonplace as a vase
of fading lilacs speak volumes, making for a complex portrait
that’s both particular and universal
*Daily Mail*
Her wisdom, gently hewn out of the stuff of every day, shines
through … Here is the simple but priceless gift of seeing the
beauty of things and knowing that even through pain and loss that
beauty will abide and indeed glow brighter the longer we look
*The Times*
It is easy to fall in love with Alice McDermott’s prose
*Times Literary Supplement*
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