End of the World is a Cul de Sac

Eimear McBride's debut collection of short stories, "The Lesser Bohemians," is a powerful and haunting exploration of the secrets people keep and the lies they tell, set against the backdrop of Ireland's folklore and politics. With visceral and stunningly crafted stories, McBride exposes the cruelty of people and the natural world, highlighting themes of domestic abuse, poverty, and abortion. The collection has received critical acclaim, with the Guardian calling it "a dazzling, heartbreaking debut collection" and the Sunday Times naming it one of the best collections of the year.

Format: Hardback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Kennedy's debut collection, "The Secrets People Kept, the Lies They Told," is a dazzling and heartbreaking exploration of the secrets people keep and the lies they tell. With her electric voice and unforgiving gaze, Kennedy's stories sing, haunt, and inspire laughter. One of the best collections I've read in years, according to Sinead Gleeson, "The Secrets People Kept, the Lies They Told" is a Sunday Times Book of the Year. The stories delve into the secrets people keep and the lies they tell, revealing the harshest of truths. In these visceral and stunningly crafted stories, people are effortlessly cruel to one another, and the natural world is a primitive salve. Women are domestically trapped by predatorial men, Ireland's folklore and politics loom large, and poverty – material, emotional, and sexual – seeps through every crack. A wife is abandoned by her new husband in a ghost estate, with blood on her hands; a young woman is tormented by visions of the man murdered by her brother during the Troubles; a pregnant mother fears the worst as her husband grows illegal cannabis with the help of a vulnerable teenage girl; a woman struggles to forgive herself after an abortion threatens to destroy her marriage. Kennedy's debut collection offers flashes of beauty and humour amidst the harshest of truths, announcing a major new voice in literary fiction for the twenty-first century.

Weight: 410g
Dimension: 145 x 226 x 30 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781526623270