Description
A thirty-three-year-old teacher, Melody Shee, is trying to break free from a life that has begun to feel like a habit rather than a choice—until an impulsive decision leaves her pregnant with her seventeen-year-old student, Martin Toppy, from a Traveller community. As the consequences close in, Melody must navigate shame, secrecy, and the fragile hope of starting again, discovering that redemption may come less from grand gestures than from the steady, complicated power of friendship. Donal Ryan’s signature focus on intimate interiority and the small, telling details of everyday thought and emotion brings a raw, humane intensity to this story. At its heart, the novel explores love and responsibility, belonging and prejudice, and the difficult work of becoming someone new without erasing where you come from.
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paperback
Penguin
Published Jul 4, 2017
193 pages
ISBN: 9780143131045
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First Published
2016
Language
eng
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