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The highly anticipated new novel by breakout debut writer Oisín McKenna, author of Evenings and Weekends Set in Hackney, East London, between the 1990s and 2023, the story follows a cast of local characters in two timelines: focusing on a young Irish woman as she struggles to make a life for herself in 90s London and her son, living with and reckoning with his mother’s decisions thirty years later. Moving, witty and tender, it explores questions of community, belonging, trauma and and how to make a happy, fulfilling life in the contemporary world.