a young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. a bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. bouquets are found all over a museum. teenagers gather to dissect a human body. brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. in this bravura debut collection, Liadan Ní Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political

‘Deserves to be considered among the best Irish books of the 21st century… This is a brilliant and remarkable book… Superb.’ — Irish Times

‘Scrupulous, surprising and entirely gripping. The arrival of a stunning new voice.’ — Guardian

160 pages, paperback