Jess Kidd

Himself

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When Mahony returns to Mulderrig, a speck of a place on Ireland's west coast, he brings only his handsome face, a photograph of his too-young, long-lost mother, and a determination to do battle with the village's lies. Mahony also somehow wakes the dead from their graves, those folk who once lived here, with their foggy memories and hidden stories, floating greyly amongst the unseeing living. No one though - living or dead - will tell what happened to the teenage mother who abandoned him as a baby. Despite Mahony's certainty that more than one of them knows. Between Mulderrig's sly priest, an implacable nurse and a caustic elderly actress thr… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-78211-846-6
EAN: 9781782118466
Produktnummer: 19629759
Verlag: Canongate
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 368 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.4 cm x D2.7 cm 390 g
Gewicht: 390

Über den Autor

Jess Kidd completed her first degree in Literature with The Open University, and has since taught creative writing and gained a PhD in Creative Writing Studies. She has also worked as a support worker specialising in acquired brain injury. In 2016, Jess won the Costa Short Story Award for Dirty Little Fishes and her debut novel Himself was selected for the BBC Radio 2 Book Club and shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. In 2017, Himself was shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award and longlisted for the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger. Jess is now working on projects for film and television. Jess is now developing her own original TV projects with leading UK and International TV producers. @JessKiddHerself