We Were Young

Cormac is a photographer approaching forty and single. 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. He 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 to reckon with a death in the family that hangs over those left behind.

Format: Hardback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2022
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co

Young, before Alva and everything. 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 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.

Weight: 394g
Dimension: 144 x 224 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474611701