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The Coast Road
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $17.99
ISBN13: 9780063336568
Publisher: Harpervia
Published: May 6 2025
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
Winner of the Irish Book Awards Newcomer of the Year 2024
Shortlisted for the John McGahern Annual Book Prize
A poignant debut novel about the lives of women in a claustrophobic coast town and the search for independence in a society that seeks to limit it.
Murrin powerfully renders the ways that women's freedom, individuality, and self-expression are stifled by religion, custom, and gossip.--The New Yorker
A painful, gorgeous debut.--Elle
Set in 1994, The Coast Road tells the story of two women--Izzy Keaveney, a housewife, and Colette Crowley, a poet. Colette has left her husband and sons for a married man in Dublin. When she returns to her home in County Donegal to try to pick up the pieces of her old life, her husband, Shaun, a successful businessman, denies her access to her children.
The only way she can see them is with the help of neighbour Izzy, acting as a go-between. Izzy also feels caught in a troubled marriage. The friendship that develops between them will ultimately lead to tragedy for one, and freedom for the other.
Addictive as Big Little Lies with a depth and compassion that rivals the works of Claire Keegan, Elizabeth Strout, and Colm TóibÃn, The Coast Road is a story about the limits placed on women's lives in Ireland only a generation ago, and the consequences women have suffered trying to gain independence. Award-winning Irish author Alan Murrin reminds us of the price we are forced to pay to find freedom.
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