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  • My Dark Vanessa

    “I can’t lose the thing I’ve held onto for so long, you know?” My face twists up from the pain of pushing it out. “I just really need it to be a love story, you know? I really, really need it to be that.”

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  • The Jigsaw Man

    “I always find it odd when people say that of the dead. They had their whole life ahead of them. Clearly, they didn’t because they’re dead. We may not like the method of disposal but when it’s your time to go, then it’s your time to go.”

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  • Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase

    Geraldine Verne’s Red Suitcase: the perfect Summer read.

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  • Charity

    “You have to know your history if you want to put things right.”

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  • Why Rebel

    “Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.”

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  • Period: It’s About Bloody Time

    “I loathe my period. I cannot wait for the day it sods off. For good. But shall I tell you what I loathe even more? Not being able to talk about it. Freely, funnily and honestly.

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  • An American Marriage

    “Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.”

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  • The Tall Owl: And Other Stories

    A collection of short stories about love, guilt, shame and the very notion of human existence.

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  • Because of You

    Two women go into hospital expecting to leave with a child, but only one does – and it’s not theirs.

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  • Girl

    Edna O’Brien’s fictional reimagining of the 276 Boko Haram girls who were abducted in Nigeria in 2014.

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