The Quiet Whispers Never Stop

In 1982, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness of her life in the belly of a place that is built on hate and stagnation. Her daughter Sam and baby son PJ keep her tethered to this life she doesn''t want. She finds unexpected refuge with a seventeen-year-old boy, but this relationship is only temporary, a sticking plaster on a festering wound. It cannot last and when her chance to leave Northern Ireland comes, Nuala takes it. In 1994, Sam Malin plans escape. She longs for a life outside her dysfunctional family, far away from the North and all its troubles, free from her quiet brooding father Patsy, who never talks about her mother, Nuala; a woman Sam barely knew, who abandoned them twelve years ago. She finds solace in music, drugs and her best friend Becca, but most of all in an illicit relationship with a jagged, magnetic older man. She is drawn to him, and he to her, in a way she can''t yet comprehend. Sam is more like her mother than she knows.

Product details

• Authors: Olivia Fitzsimons, OLIVIA FITZSIMONS
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781529373592
• ISBN: 978-1-5293-7359-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 194 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, Northern Ireland