As You Were
by Elaine Feeney
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Pub Date 20 Aug 2020 | Archive Date 20 Sep 2020
Random House UK, Vintage Publishing | Harvill Secker
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**AN OBSERVER 10 BEST DEBUTS OF 2020**
'Amazing... Brimful of brilliant characters -- I LOVED IT!' Marian Keyes
Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.
No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.
But she can’t go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed, Jane, rarely but piercingly lucid, is searching for a decent bra and for someone to listen. Sinéad needs them both.
As You Were is about intimate histories, institutional failures, the kindness of strangers, and the darkly present past of modern Ireland. It is about women’s stories and women’s struggles. It is about seizing the moment to be free.
Wildly funny, desperately tragic, inventive and irrepressible, As You Were introduces a brilliant voice in Irish fiction with a book that is absolutely of our times.
'An absolute tour de force: raw, sharp and wild' Lisa McInerney
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781787301634 |
| PRICE | £14.99 (GBP) |
| PAGES | 320 |
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Featured Reviews
Anne H, Reviewer
This debut novel is a tribute to the spirit and resilience of Irish women - brimful of the usual Irish angst, but thankfully - what could have been a depressing read - is lightened with wry Irish humour. At times the narrative borders on farce and it could be easily translated to a stage play as most of it takes place in a mixed hospital ward. Feeney displays a mastery of revealing character through dialogue and I found her sympathetic portrayal of the patient with dementia particularly skilful and moving. I'm looking forward to future work by this talented writer.
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