The Coast Road - Murrin, Alan
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"A ... debut novel about the lives of women, set in a claustrophobic coast town [in 1995]. How can they find independence in a society that seeks to limit it?"--

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"A ... debut novel about the lives of women, set in a claustrophobic coast town [in 1995]. How can they find independence in a society that seeks to limit it?"--
Autorenporträt
Alan Murrin is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story, ?The Wake,? won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. The manuscript of The Coast Road was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and an Arts Council Literature Bursary. He is a graduate of the prose fiction masters at the University of East Anglia, and writes for the Irish Times, the Times Literary Supplement, and The Spectator, as well as Art Review and The White Review.
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Alan Murrin writes with the calm, poetic fluency of the best of Irish writers. The Coast Road is set in Donegal the year before divorce became legal in Ireland, and the many themes are equally - sadly - as relevant now. Women's autonomy is beautifully scrutinised in a shifting tempo that moves between rage, forgiveness and hope. It's a stonkingly good novel. Just read it Sarah Winman, bestselling author of STILL LIFE
Beautifully written ... The novel is wonderful on what it means to live in a patriarchal society and the consequences women can suffer for trying to follow their dreams. Compelling