Doreen Finn's writing delves into the depths of human experience, exploring complex relationships and the inner lives of her characters through a distinctive literary style. Her work is marked by a keen insight and a poetic language that draws readers into the heart of the narrative. Finn is dedicated to capturing the essence of life and its unspoken truths. She crafts stories that resonate with profound emotional honesty.
Nine-year-old Megan lives in a redbrick house in Dublin with her mother, a beautiful and lonely artist, and her grandmother; her father's whereabouts are a mystery. When an American family moves in downstairs and Megan's mother begins a tentative affair with the father, everything that Megan is sure of starts to unravel.
What happens when you no longer recognise the person you have become? Eva has managed to spend her twenties successfully hiding from herself in New York. Attempting to write, but really only writing her epitaph, she returns to Ireland to confront the past that has made her what she is. In prose that is hauntingly beautiful and delicate, Doreen Finn explores a truly complex and fascinating character with deft style and unflinching honesty.