He Is Mine and I Have No Other [electronic resource]
Rebecca O'Connor2018
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'Powerful and searing' Sunday Times 'Eerie, tender and wonderful' Sophie
Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure 'I was frightened of him in a way - of his
grief, his loneliness - for he looked like the loneliest person on earth just
then . . . the type of boy who wondered about things, as I did, who broke his
heart wondering about things . . .' In 1990s-small-town Ireland, amid the sweaty
school discos and first fumblings of adolescence, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine
falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to
Lani's house. Lani is haunted by the stories of thirty-five orphaned girls,
buried in an unmarked grave near Leon's mother. As the love story unfolds, and
then unravels, it becomes clear that Leon too is haunted - by a brutal family
tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep. He Is Mine and I Have No
Other is a captivating, eerie and atmospheric novel about the obsessive power of
first love, about the claustrophobia a tight-kni...
Main title:
He Is Mine and I Have No Other [electronic resource] / Rebecca O'Connor
Author:
Rebecca O'Connor, Author
Imprint:
Edinburgh : Canongate Books, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (204 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781786892614
Language:
English
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BRN:
434613
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