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The Wren, The Wren

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<p>Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there.</p><p></p><p>The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author'A magnificent novel'SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE'Might just be her best yet'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES'Gem-packed language... A must-read'MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter)Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind.</p><p></p><p>As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.</p><p></p><p>This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.</p><p></p><p>'One of our greatest living novelists'THE TIMES</p>

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