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9781526663702

The Coast Road

The Coast Road

by Alan Murrin

Publisher Bloomsbury Circus

Genre: General Fiction

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  • UK First Edition, First Printing


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About the book

'Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel' SARAH WINMAN
'A beautiful, accomplished debut' LOUISE KENNEDY
'It will no doubt be a bestseller' GILLIAN ANDERSON, GRAZIA

It's 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley - the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her husband and sons to pursue a relationship with a married man in Dublin. But now Colette is back, and nobody knows why.

Returning to the community to try and reclaim her old life, Colette quickly learns that they are unwilling to give it back to her. The man to whom she is still married is denying her access to her children, and while the legalisation of divorce might be just around the corner, Colette finds herself caught between her old life and the freedom for which she risked everything. Desperate to see her children, she enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey - one toward a path of self-discovery, and the other toward tragedy.

Brilliantly observed from a sharp new literary talent, 
The Coast Road is a novel about a closed community and the consequences of daring to move against the tide.

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About the Author

Alan Murrin

Alan Murrinis an Irish fiction writer based in Berlin. In 2021 he was the winner of the Bournemouth Writing Prize for his short story "The Wake", which went on to be shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. He is the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia. His work was featured as part of the New Irish Writing series in the Irish Independent. His work has been short-listed for the Irish Arts and Writers Festival short story prize, the New Irish Writing in Germany Prize, and he was long-listed for the 2021 University of Essex International short story prize. He writes for theIrish Times,Times Literary SupplementandSpectator. His writing on art and photography has appeared inArt ReviewandThe White Review.

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