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As You Were | Elaine Feeney

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Shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize � Winner of the 2021 Kate O'Brien Award � Winner of the 2021 Dalkey Emerging Writer Award Sin�ad 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. And Sin�ad needs them both. As You Were is about intimate histories, institutional failures, the kindness of strangers, and the darkly present past of modern Ireland; about women's stories and women's struggles; 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.

lauraisntwilder

AS YOU WERE. | ELAINE. FEENEY

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I have a feeling this one is going to stay with me for a while. I always love a story where characters are thrown together and become a united group: passangers on a train, students in a dorm, etc. In this case, the characters are patients in a shared hospital ward. Their life stories are played out for each other in ways that are both poignant and cringeworthy. How do we touch each other's hearts in those situations? How do we move on? Loved it.

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AlexGeorge

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“We should be valued in neither our successes nor our failures, but in our endurance.” Feeney is a poet and it shows in this, her first novel: the language is miraculous. A terminal cancer diagnosis has Sinead, the narrator, marooned in a hospital ward in Galway. Reluctant to admit her own truths to anyone, her fellow patients give her a lifeline back to what matters most. Painful, hilarious, and unforgettable.

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