The Coast Road : ‘A perfect book club read’ Sunday Times

by Murrin, Alan | Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published 01/05/2025 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 320 pages
128 x 198 x 23mm | 222g

* WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 *‘A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES‘I loved this novel ... An addictive read’ GILLIAN ANDERSON‘Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel’ SARAH WINMAN‘A beautiful, accomplished debut’ LOUISE KENNEDYIt’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley: the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her family to be with a married man in Dublin.

Returning to pick up the pieces of her old life, Colette finds that nothing – and everything – has changed. When the man to whom she is still married denies her access to their children, Colette 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 towards a path of self-discovery, and the other towards tragedy.

A WOMAN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024