A skilful debut novel paints a nuanced picture of Belfast and a grieving young woman’s search for something to believe in
he journalist Rachel Connolly’s incisive debut novel conveys the quiet desperation of a generation facing economic instability and career uncertainty, compounded by the climate crisis. Erin returns home to Belfast after the death of her best friend, Kate. She suspends her degree and accepts a position as an au pair to avoid staying with her mother. At first she finds solace with her old friend Declan – an artist working as a barman – and former boyfriend Mikey, a junior doctor.
The only constant in Erin’s life is her faith. She visits several churches, and reveals her grief and disconnection in prayer. Erin betrays, and is deceived by, the two men she sleeps with, and yet it is some measure of Connolly’s skill that we retain sympathy for her flawed, messy heroine.
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