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Ryan (The Spinning Heart, which was longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize) returns with another stunning novel that turns a character's mind out onto the page. In this work (short-listed for The Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award), the innocent and painfully self-conscious Johnsey Cunliffe finds his cocooned rural Irish life suddenly disintegrating. Daddy has died of cancer. Mother can barely muster the energy to even try to cope, and soon she joins the...Log In or Sign Up to Read More