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The Closet of Savage Mementos

Lillis takes a summer job working at a lodge in a small lochside village in the Scottish Highlands. Leaving home is a way to escape her sorrow and despair following the death of her boyfriend and a testy relationship with her mother, Verity.

In Scotland she encounters love and excitement but when a series of unexpected events turn her new found life on its head, she is forced to make a life-changing decision, one that will stay with her for her whole life.

The Closet of Savage Mementos is drawn directly from the author's own experiences and explores heartbreak, loss, motherhood and adoption in a gripping narrative and the same expressive, emotive and exciting prose we have come to expect of Nuala Ní Chonchúir.

Reviews:

'Her finest novel yet.' — The Sunday Times

Ní Chonchúir manages to strike a delicate balance between passion and poetry... The Closet of Savage Mementos is a book that will appeal to, and deserves, a wide audience.’ — Sunday Business Post

'It is raw, beautiful and compelling, a 'must read'.' — Sunday Independent

mpelling and deeply accomplished, The Closet of Savage Mementos is the product of a powerful literary talent. — Cork Evening Echo

About the Author:

Nuala Ní Chonchúir was born in Dublin in 1970; she lives in East Galway with her husband and three children. Her fourth short story collection Mother America was published by New Island in 2012; The Irish Times said of it: ‘Ní Chonchúir’s precisely made but deliciously sensual stories mark her as a carrier of Edna O’Brien’s flame.’ Her début novel You (New Island, 2010) was called ‘a gem’ by the Irish Examiner and ‘a heart-warmer’ by The Irish Times. A chapbook of flash fiction, Of Dublin and Other Fictions, is just out from Tower Press in the US. Nuala has won many writing awards including RTÉ radio’s Francis MacManus Award, the Cúirt New Writing Prize, the Jane Geske Award (USA), the inaugural Jonathan Swift Award, the Dublin Review of Books flash fiction prize and the Cecil Day Lewis Award. She was shortlisted for the European Prize for Literature and most recently won the Gladstone’s Library Flash Fiction Prize (UK).www.nualanichonchuir.com

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 190
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781848403369
  • Genres
  • fiction
  • Release date
  • 2014