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Our Lady of Everything

Susan Finlay author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Profile Books Ltd

Published:14th Mar '19

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A bittersweet story of clashing beliefs and confused identities from debut author Susan Finlay

A bittersweet story of clashing beliefs and confused identities.Margaret O'Shea never thought she'd find herself praying for the life of an English soldier. But with her grandson Eoin fighting in Iraq, Margaret can't do anything but say the rosary and hope that he comes home unscathed. His fiancée Katarzyna is a good Catholic girl, even if she goes to Nottingham's Polish church rather than its Irish one. What Margaret doesn't know is that Kathy's way of coping with Eoin's absence goes beyond prayer or reading horoscopes. Her friend David has been studying Chaos Magic to distract himself from his new post-PhD career selling figurines of rat men to acne-ridden teenagers and wants Kathy to participate in his Rite of Internet Love. But everyone gets more chaos than they bargained for when a video of a wounded Iraqi and a soldier who looks a lot like Eoin starts circulating. This is a sharp, wry and moving debut novel about love, faith and what normal people do when they don't have any of the answers.

Our Lady Of Everything is a complex yet touchingly human novel, reflecting the everyday diversity of modern Britain, and the rich, intricate lives that lie behind every window in every street -- Joolz Denby, author of Billie Morgan and Borrowed Light
A funny and affecting portrait of modern Britain in all its kaleidoscopic glory -- Laura Kaye, author of English Animals
ELLE Ones to Watch 2019: A charming, quirky novel set in mid-2000s Nottingham about multicultural life, love and faith ... It's refreshing to see a novel that focuses the lens on regional identities and makes Nottingham a major character within the story. * Elle *
Finlay weaves a vibrant and enchanting patchwork of British society at the turn of the millennium... Wry, peculiar and bittersweet, Our Lady of Everything points to the myriad rituals and belief systems we all depend upon to make sense of our messy realities. * Hot Lit! Ex-Berliner *
A poignant character-driven novel about love, faith and searching for answers in our modern times * Culturefly *
A wonderful debut * Image Magazine *
Our Lady of Everything's salty bizarrerie treads new paths through the entanglement of the global and the local, happily mingling the everyday with the downright weird and exuberant in style. -- Jennifer Hodgson, editor, The Unmapped Country

ISBN: 9781788161190

Dimensions: 220mm x 140mm x 26mm

Weight: 400g

256 pages

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