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- Paperback Aug 1, 2023 | 9781474611725 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Aug 1, 2023 | 9781474611725 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Feb 22, 2022 | 9781474611718 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Dec 23, 2012 | 9780738216379 | RRP $31.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Jun 14, 2022 | 9781474611701 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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Da Capo Lifelong Books
- Paperback Aug 1, 2023 | 9781474611725 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Feb 22, 2022 | 9781474611718 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Dec 23, 2012 | 9780738216379 | RRP $31.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Jun 14, 2022 | 9781474611701 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
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W&N
- Paperback Aug 1, 2023 | 9781474611725 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Feb 22, 2022 | 9781474611718 | RRP $32.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Dec 23, 2012 | 9780738216379 | RRP $31.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Jun 14, 2022 | 9781474611701 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
From the author of This Happy and winner of the Sunday Times Short Story Audible Award, comes a deeply moving, funny, profound novel about Cormac, a man approaching forty and still single, and the women that prop up his life. A novel for readers of Anne Enright, Tessa Hadley, Sally Rooney and Jonathan Franzen.
'I love this woman's writing. Golden sentences' Diana Evans
'Witty, fiery, wistful and even shocking, with engrossing heady prose, Campbell's style is unique' Irish Independent
'An immensely enjoyable novel, and a great validation of Campbell's uncanny emotional insight' Megan Nolan, Sunday Independent
Cormac is a photographer. Approaching forty and still single, he suddenly finds himself 'the leftover man'.
Through talent and charm, he has escaped small town life and a haunted family. But now his peers are all getting divorced, dying, or buying trampolines in the suburbs. Cormac is dating former students, staying out all night and receiving boilerplate rejection emails for his work, propped up by a constellation of the women and ex-lovers in his life.
In the last weeks of the year, Cormac meets Caroline, an ambitious young dancer, and embarks on a miniature odyssey of intimacy. Simultaneously, he must take responsibility for his married brother, whose mid-life crisis forces them both to reckon with a death in the family that hangs over those left behind.
Set in Dublin, a city built on burial pits, We Were Young is a dazzlingly clever, deeply enjoyable novel from a Sunday Times Short Story Award-Winning author.
'In 30 years from now will some literary critic be asking what is meant by "Campbellesque"? That would not surprise me in the slightest' Irish Times
More books by Niamh Campbell
Praise for We Were Young
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Campbell's new novel confirms what an outstanding writer she is ... What makes the novel so endlessly rich is how patiently and sensitively Campbell evokes a complex depth of feeling and sedimented experience ... She writes with a deliciously refined sense of irony without ever torpedoing the book's emotional sincerity. Superb - Daily Mail
Niamh Campbell
Niamh Campbell's debut novel, This Happy (2020), was shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the John McGahern Book Prize and the Kate O'Brien Award. In 2020, she also won the Sunday Times Audible Short Story Award. She lives and works in Dublin.
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