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Frances Macken

    Frances Macken's debut work hints at a profound understanding of the human experience. Her writing style is meticulously crafted, exploring the complexities of human relationships and the inner lives of her characters. Readers can anticipate engaging narratives and thoughtful portrayals of emotions and motivations.

    You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here
    • Evelyn is intoxicating. She's self-assured, mercurial, dominant and mischievous. But she's also mean, and as much as her best friends Katie and Maeve crave her approval, theirs is a threesome held together by fear. As the girls grow up and start to look beyond their small Irish village, they must step out of Evelyn's shadow. This mesmerising debut, brilliantly evocative of rural Ireland, is a compellingly readable portrait of the places, and people, that continue to shape us long after we've decided to leave them behind.

      You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Here2020
      3.5