The Weight of Love

Maggie OFarrell with bite a powerful love story set between London Dublin, from the much lauded Irish Times columnist who counts Roddy Doyle among her fans.

About the author

HILARY FANNIN is an award-winning playwright and newspaper columnist. Born in Dublin, where she still lives, she was writer in association at the Abbey Theatre in its centenary year. Her plays, including Mackerel Sky, Doldrum Bay, Famished Castle and an adaptation of Racine’s Phaedra, have been performed in Ireland, London, Europe and North America. She writes a weekly column for the Irish Times and was awarded Irish Columnist of the Year in 2019. Her memoir, Hopscotch, was published to critical acclaim in 2015. The Weight of Love is her first novel.

Summary

Theirs is a marriage haunted by the ghost of Joseph and as the distance between them grows, Robin makes a choice that could have potentially devastating consequences. The Weight of Love is a beautiful exploration of how we manage life when the notes and beats of our existence, so carefully arranged, begin to slip off the stave.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Fannin, Fannin Hilary
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781784163365
• ISBN: 978-1-78416-336-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Love and relationships