Debut Novels

Arts journalist Pat Carty is joined by some of Ireland’s most exciting emerging authors. Anna Fitzgerald’s Girl in the Making (Sandycove) is a deeply moving story capturing the dreams and terrors of girlhood in a difficult world. Alan Murrin’s The Coast Road (Bloomsbury) is a brilliantly observed novel about a closed rural community and the consequences of daring to move against the tide. Orla Mackey’s Mouthing (Hamish Hamilton) is a multigenerational and darkly hilarious portrait of small-town Irish life.

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