Ruth & Pen

The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFbr>br>Dublin, 7 October 2019br>br>One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither knows the other, but both are asking the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world won''t make space for you, to be with yourself?br>br>Ruth''s marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.br>br>For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.br>br>RUTH & PEN is the fictional debut from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF. Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.>

Product details

• Authors: Emilie Pine, Pine Emilie
• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9780241393666
• ISBN: 978-0-241-39366-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 144 mm x 222 mm x 26 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Dublin, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, Narrative theme: Interior life, Ireland, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Contemporary lifestyle fiction, Narrative theme: Love and relationships