Scenes of a Graphic Nature

Scenes of a Graphic Nature
Caroline O'Donoghue
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h196 x 126mm - 352pg
1 Jul 2021 UK
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9780349009971
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From the author of Promising Young Women - ' Whipsmart and witty' Marian Keyes ' Brilliant' Dolly Alderton - comes a darkly comic and moving novel about going back to your roots - and digging up demons. ' Do you know what cead mile failte means? ' ' A hundred thousand welcomes. ' ' Not a hundred thousand homes. Not a hundred thousand "stay here' s". ' Charlie Regan' s life isn' t going forward, so she' s decided to go back. After a tough few years floundering around the British film industry, experimenting with amateur pornography and watching her father' s health rapidly decline, she and her best friend Laura journey to her ancestral home of Clipim, an island off the west coast of Ireland. Knowing this could be the last chance to connect with her dad' s history before she loses him, Charlie clings to the idea of her Irish roots offering some kind of solace. But she' ll find out her heritage is about more than cliches and clover-foamed Guinness. When the girls arrive at Clipim, Charlie begins to question both her difficult relationship with Laura and her father' s childhood stories. Before long, she' s embroiled in a devastating conspiracy that' s been sixty years in the making . . . and it' s up to her to reveal the truth of it. With a sharp eye and sour tongue, Caroline O' Donoghue delivers a delicious contemporary fable of prodigal return. Blisteringly honest, funny and moving, it grapples with love, friendship and the struggle of second-generation immigrants trying to belong.
I loved it . . . whipsmart and so witty - Marian Keyes, on Promising Young WomenSo brilliant . . . It couldn' t really be more timely - Dolly Alderton, the High Low Podcast, on Promising Young WomenFunny, clever, upsetting, fierce and absolutely of its time. A future classic - Jane Casey, on Promising Young WomenAnyone who enjoyed Jami Attenberg' s All Grown Up or Sally Rooney' s Conversations With Friends will find much to like in Caroline O' Donoghue' s darkly funny novel - Irish Independent, on Promising Young WomenBluebeard crossed with The Yellow Wallpaper neck-deep in zeitgeist - Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti, on Promising Young WomenThe cleverest, funniest and most assured debut novel I' ve ever read - Daisy Buchanan, author of How to Be a Grown-Up, on Promising Young WomenIn the inventive O' Donoghue' s follow-up to Promising Young Women, she turns her tart tongue on friendship, exile and what it feels like to return to a place that no longer feels like home - The iI wasso hooked on this beautiful, funny story of homecoming and self-discovery I didn' t want to put it down. The characters are wonderfully drawn and the sense of place is so compelling - it is a mystery, a fireside yarn. There is a little Maeve Binchy in there, a little Keyes, but Caroline has her own voice, and the edge to Charlie and Laura - their difficult, funny and recognisable relationship - is all her own. - Keith Stuart, author of The Boy Made of Blocks
Caroline O' Donoghue is an Irish author, journalist and host of the award-nominated podcast Sentimental Garbage. She has contributed to Grazia, Irish Times, Irish Examiner, Buzzfeed, Vice and The Times. On publication of her first novel, Promising Young Women, in 2018 she was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards' Newcomer of the Year and the Kate O' Brien Award. Her next adult novel, Scenes of a Graphic Nature, will be published in 2020 followed by All Our Hidden Gifts, a novel for young adults published by Walker, in 2021. She was born in Cork but currently lives in London with her partner and a terrier with chronic eye problems.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9780349009971
Published: 1 Jul 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Virago Press
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback
Height: 196mm
Width: 126mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 276g
Pages: 352

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