The quiet whispers never stop
Fitzsimons, Olivia2022
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In 1982, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness of her life in the belly of a place that is built on hate and stagnation. Her daughter Sam and baby son PJ keep her tethered to this life she doesn't want. She finds unexpected refuge with a seventeen-year-old boy, but this relationship is only temporary, a sticking plaster on a festering wound. It cannot last and when her chance to leave Northern Ireland comes, Nuala takes it. In 1994, Sam Malin plans escape. She longs for a life outside her dysfunctional family, far away from the North and all its troubles, free from her quiet brooding father Patsy, who never talks about her mother, Nuala; a woman Sam barely knew, who abandoned them twelve years ago. She finds solace in music, drugs and her best friend Becca, but most of all in an illicit relationship with a jagged, magnetic older man.
Main title:
The quiet whispers never stop / Olivia Fitzsimons.
Author:
Fitzsimons, Olivia, author
Imprint:
London : John Murray, 2022.
Collation:
320 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781529373578 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GAF
LC class:
PR6106
Local class:
AF
Language:
English
BRN:
3060877
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