Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth
Niamh Mulvey
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Due to be published: 23rd Jun '22
Pre-order - This hardback title is not yet published, due 23rd Jun '22
£14.99
The debut of an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, Hearts and Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth is a collection of songlike stories about love in all its forms, and about what it is to look back on the lost loves of our past.
SKU: 9781529079913
Categories: Contemporary romance, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Preorder, Short storiesDescription
‘Vivid, memorable and beautifully crafted’ – Sarah Moss, author of Summerwater’A brilliant collection, from a remarkable talent’ – Joseph O’Connor, author of ShadowplayHearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we survive it. A young woman learns to wield her power, leaving casualties in her wake, while a man from a small town finds solace in a strange new hobby. A watchful child feels a breaking point approach as her mother struggles to keep her life on track, and another daughter steps onto a stage while her family in the audience hope that she is strong enough now to take on the world. First-time lovers make mistakes, brothers and sisters try to forgive one another, and parents struggle and fail and struggle again. Teenage souls are swayed by euphoric faith in a higher power and then by devotion to desire, trapped between different notions of what might be true. Quiet revolutions happen in living rooms, on river banks, in packed pubs and empty churches, and years later we wonder why we ever did the things we did. Set between Ireland and London in the first two decades of this millennium, the stories in Hearts and Bones, Niamh Mulvey’s debut collection, look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that we’ve brought the old gods down. Witty, sharply observed and deeply moving, these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent.’Honest, daringly fresh and stunningly written, these stories cut right to the very essence of what it means to be young’ – Jan Carson, author of The Raptures
Additional information
Dimensions | 135 × 216 mm |
---|---|
Page Count | 176 |
Related products
-
Henry VII (Penguin Monarchs): Treason and Trust
Sean Cunningham - Hardback
Pre-order, due 30th Mar '23
£14.99 Add to basket -
Wars of the Bruces, The: Scotland, England and Ireland 1306 – 1328
Colm McNamee - Paperback / softback
Pre-order, due 4th Aug '22
£14.99 Add to basket -
Care Home Boy: One Child’s Fight to Survive in the Brutal British Care System
Nigel Cooper - Paperback / softback
Pre-order, due 1st Jan '99
£7.99 Add to basket -
Sexuality: The Basics
Kari Lerum - Paperback / softback
Pre-order, due 31st Dec '23
£14.99 Add to basket