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As You Were
Elaine Feeney
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WINNER OF THE 2021 KATE O'BRIEN AWARD * SHORTLISTED FOR NOVEL OF THE YEAR, IRISH BOOK AWARDS * SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021
'An absolute tour de force: raw, sharp and wild' Lisa McInerney
'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 ... Read moretrying 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 neighboring 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.
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Publisher
Vintage Publishing London
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Elaine Feeney
Elaine Feeney has published three collections of poetry, Where’s Katie?, The Radio was Gospel, Rise, and a drama piece, WRoNGHEADED, commissioned by Liz Roche Company. She teaches at The National University of Ireland, Galway and St Jarlath’s College. Her work has been widely published and anthologised in Poetry Review, The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times, Copper Nickel, Stonecutter Journal and ... Read moreothers. As You Were is her fiction debut. Show Less
Reviews for As You Were
Comic, heartfelt and full of characters who walk off the page, it feels like Irish writing has been waiting a long time for a voice as unique and insistent as Elaine Feeney. A superb, unforgettable debut.
Sinéad Gleeson
As You Were is an absolute tour de force: raw, sharp and wild. Elaine Feeney writes with such love for ... Read moreand understanding of her characters. It’s the literary equivalent of a stiff drink beside a warm fire: a book that will rattle you before it settles you.
Lisa McInerney
As You Were was just (effing) amazing. Brimful of brilliant characters – what an exciting, visceral, poetic read. I adored the lack of sentimentality. Sinéad Hynes is complex and excellently realised – a role model too, for I found her (sometime) selfishness thrillingly refreshing. As You Were gives permission to Irish women to put themselves first, and considering what we've come from, that's seismic. Elaine Feeney is such a talent. I LOVED it!
Marian Keyes
A truly original voice. Raw, urgent and uncompromising about the lengths we go to to conceal hurt, deception, psychic pain... A brilliant portrayal of the kindness of strangers, the kinship of women and the heartbreak of married love.
Mary Costello
'An absolutely fabulous book’
Kevin Barry
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