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Marcella Polain

    Marcella Polain focuses on exploring the complexities of human relationships and identity through evocative and atmospheric narratives. Her prose style is characterized by deep psychological insight and meticulously crafted characters that draw readers into intimate worlds. Through her writing, she illuminates themes of memory, displacement, and the search for belonging. Polain's work stands out for its poetic quality and emotional resonance.

    Driving Into the Sun
    • Driving Into the Sun

      • 312 pages
      • 11 hours of reading
      3.6(41)Add rating

      For Orla, living in the suburbs in 1968 on the cusp of adolescence, her father is a great shining light, whose warm and powerful presence fills her world. But in the aftermath of his sudden death, Orla, her mother and her sister are left in a no- an’s-land, a place where the rights and protections of the nuclear family suddenly and mysteriously no longer apply, and where the path between girl and woman must be navigated alone.

      Driving Into the Sun