One of our Great Reads You May Have Missed in 2012.
With some absolutely stunning rave reviews from established authors Solace is as tender as it is heartbreaking and a brilliant debut from an exciting new voice in Irish fiction. Solace is a work to be admired for its spare, intense lyricism, its range, and its deeply compassionate portrayal of life as it is lived now.
June 2012 Debut of the Month.
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Mark Casey has left home, the rural Irish community where his family has farmed the same land for generations, to study for a doctorate in Dublin, a vibrant, contemporary city full of possibility. To his father, Tom, who needs help baling the hay and ploughing the fields, Mark's pursuit isn't work at all, and indeed Mark finds himself whiling away his time with pubs and parties. His is a life without focus or responsibility, until he meets Joanne Lynch, a trainee solicitor whom he finds irresistible. Joanne too has a past to escape from and for a brief time she and Mark share the chaos and rapture of a new love affair, until the lightning strike of tragedy changes everything.
Solace features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Family Drama, Debut Books of the Month, eBooks of the Month, General Fiction, Fiction, Recommendations
Solace is available in Paperback, Hardback
Solace was written by Belinda McKeon and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Solace has 340 pages
