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Duneen is a quiet place, far enough from the big towns to have kept its own rhythms. Its residents include castdown policeman PJ who lives a lonely, uneventful life punctuated only by the next meal - until now; the beautiful and mysterious family of three spinster sisters each with their own secrets and sorrows; and of course, the town's gossip who think she knows the answers. When a grim discovery is made on a building site up by the old school, it becomes the catalyst for long buried secrets and rivalries to come to light and this silent, once innocent and repressed-seeming town is revealed to have a much darker, hungrier undertow.

Critics Review

  • Poised and perceptive

    the Sunday Times

  • Deeply accomplished, with brilliantly observed, entertaining characters and an atmospheric setting

    Good Housekeeping

  • Heartwarming and observant

    Stylist

  • Strenuously charming…surprisingly tender

    Metro

  • One of the more authentic debuts I’ve read in recent years… A fine novel.

    The Irish Times

  • An undercurrent of black comedy accompanies the ripples that ensue – but with a pathos that makes this deftly plotted story as moving as it is compelling.

    Sunday Mirror

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