Where I End
Book description
'My mother. At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her ...'
Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about. Aoileann desperately wants a family, and when artist Rachel and her baby move to…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Where I End as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Ideas of neglect and abandonment as well as isolation run throughout Where I End, a tense shocking literary debut from the Irish writer and journalist. This story is about an incapacitated mother being cared for by her teenage daughter.
I loved the desolation White created on the remote island inspired by Inis Meáin. With cliffs on one end, a sandy beach on the other, White describes how she was walking one day with her husband when she felt an explicable sense of dread.
“It wasn’t just wild and windswept and any of those clichés, it was actually more the stillness…
From Amanda's list on nightmare thrillers that unfold in dreamy Irish settings.
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