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320 pages, Hardcover
First published June 4, 2024
County Donegal, 1994.
Izzy, who is married to a local politician since many years, isn’t content with her life and her husband’s parochial attitude. She whiles her time by staying active in multiple activities, but she wonders if she should separate from her husband to liven up her life.
Colette left her husband and her sons some years ago to live with a married man in Dublin. Now she’s back, but her family no longer wants her. She rents a house by the coast road, while planning to earn some money through writing classes as well as trying to reconnect with her sons.
Dolores, married with three kids and pregnant with a fourth, knows that her husband cheats on her. But with limited options, she ignores his infidelity as much as she can. When she rents out the cottage on their property to Colette, little does she imagine what would happen next.
The story comes to us from the third person perspectives of multiple characters, including the above three women.