Emmet and Me

by Sara Gethin

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Pub Date 20 May 2021 | Archive Date 8 Mar 2022

Honno Press

General Fiction (Adult) | Historical Fiction

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Description

Summer 1966: When her father comes home with lipstick on his collar, ten-year-old Claire’s life is turned upside down. Her furious mother leaves the family and heads to London, and Claire and her brothers are packed off to Ireland, to their reclusive grandmother at her tiny cottage on the beautifully bleak coast of Connemara.

A misfit among her new classmates, Claire finds it hard to make friends until she happens across a boy her own age from the school next door. He lives at the local orphanage, a notoriously harsh place. Amidst half-truths, lies and haunting family secrets, Claire forms a forbidden friendship with Emmet ‒ a bond that will change both their lives forever.

A Note From the Publisher

From the author of 'Not Thomas':

Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award 2017
Waterstones Wales Book of the Month July 2017

From the author of 'Not Thomas':

Shortlisted for the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2017
Shortlisted for the Waverton Good Read Award 2017
Waterstones Wales Book of the Month...