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Item Details
| Title:
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HIMSELF
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| By: |
Jess Kidd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£8.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1782118489 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781782118480 |
| Publisher: |
CANONGATE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
1 June, 2017 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
Blending strange kindnesses, casual violence and buried secrets: an unforgettable debut from a dark new voice in Irish fiction |
| Synopsis: |
A BBC Radio 2 Book Club Choice Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards 2016Shortlisted for the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award 2017Longlisted for the John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 20171950. A teenage girl is brutally murdered in a forest. But, somehow, her baby survives.1976. A mysterious and charming young man returns to the remote coastal village of Mulderrig, seeking answers about the mother who, it was said, had abandoned him on the steps of a Dublin orphanage.With the help of its oldest and most eccentric inhabitant, he will force the village to give up its ghosts. Nothing, not even the dead, can stay buried forever. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Canongate Books Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards 2016 (UK).
Long-listed for CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger 2017 (UK) |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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