Hearts and Bones Audiobook Libro.fm

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Vivid memorable and beautifully crafted Sarah Moss author of Summerwater
A brilliant collection from a remarkable talent Joseph OConnor author of Shadowplay

Hearts 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

Firsttime 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 Mulveys debut collection look at the changes that have torn through these times and ask who we are now that weve brought the old gods down Witty sharply observed and deeply moving these ten stories announce an extraordinary new Irish literary talent

Highly accomplished inventive what stands out is Mulveys command of her own originality Irish Times

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