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The Coast Road

By: Alan Murrin
Narrated by: Jessica Regan
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Bloomsbury presents The Coast Road by Alan Murrin, read by Jessica Regan

* WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 *

‘A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘I loved this novel ... An addictive read’ GILLIAN ANDERSON
‘Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel’ SARAH WINMAN
‘A beautiful, accomplished debut’ LOUISE KENNEDY

It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley: the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her family to be with a married man in Dublin.

Returning to pick up the pieces of her old life, Colette finds that nothing – and everything – has changed. When the man to whom she is still married denies her access to their children, Colette enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey – one towards a path of self-discovery, and the other towards tragedy.

A WOMAN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024

©2024 Alan Murrin (P)2024 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Tear-jerking Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

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I loved the characters and the autisienthy in this story. So smart and sad, but overall also funny and hopeful.

Relatable and brilliant!

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Very insightful of marriage, village life and certainly some what evocative of the west of Ireland.

Is this actually written by a man?

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Ireland in the 90s the latter end of the influence of Catholicism on Society only 30 years ago-,an story of how women were trapped in toxic relationships by society before the divorce referendum. Beautifully and sensitivly read .

Thank God women’s lives have moved on

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No time wasted on repeated storytelling perfect length great narration choice on audible ! Would read again , expect lots of tear

Loved it

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I listened it in 1 day. Intelligent, gentle but brutal novel about being women and mother.

Wonderful story.

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Wonderful depiction of the tug of a mother’s love while trying to be a fullfilled member of society.

A window on a woman’s world before divorce in Ireland.

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I loved this book! It moved along unassumingly and every so often you're hit by an event... A couple of the men on the book were monstrous, this just added to the whole experience. I will definitely be reading more by this author.

Outstanding read!

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I loved everything about it-the lives of the 3 women were so beautifully described

This is such a wonderful, deep book

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A moving story about high sensitivity, mistakes we all make and consequences which sometimes might be to big to bear

Moving

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Irish true to life characters , very witty, would seek out any other of Alans writings

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