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SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDWhat would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours?For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, keeping their relationship hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana's company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desperate for an outlet, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca.'Utterly gripping' RODDY DOYLE'A…mehr

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDWhat would you do if you lost someone the world never knew was yours?For three years, Ana has been consumed by an affair with Connor, a client at her law firm. Their love has been consigned to hotel rooms and dark corners of pubs, keeping their relationship hidden from the world. So the morning that Ana's company receives a call to say that Connor is dead, her secret grief has nowhere to go. Desperate for an outlet, Ana seeks out the shadowy figure who has always stood just beyond her reach - Connor's wife Rebecca.'Utterly gripping' RODDY DOYLE'A triumph - crackling with psychological and sexual ambiguity' JULIE MYERSON, OBSERVER'This book is just sublime. I loved every page' CAITRIONA BALFE'Unmissable ... Incredible' STYLIST'Amazing ... I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana's fragmented narrative' EMMA HEALEY'Dark, riveting, powerful' ELIZABETH DAY
Autorenporträt
Crossan, Sarah§Sarah Crossan has lived in Dublin, London and New York, and now lives in Hertfordshire. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University. Since completing a masters in creative writing, she has been working to promote creative writing in schools.The Weight of Water and Apple and Rain were both shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal. In 2016, Sarah won the CILIP Carnegie Medal as well as the YA Book Prize, the CBI Book of the Year award and the CLiPPA Poetry Award for her novel, One.http://www.sarahcrossan.com/@SarahCrossan
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Amazing ... I absolutely love the form, which breathes new life into a familiar story making it both more elegant and more brutal. I read it in one sitting, completely swept up in Ana's fragmented narrative