Exile by Aimée Walsh - ISBN: 9781399815871
Paperback
Friendship, consent, and displacement: home’s gone, and life is spiraling.

Exile

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  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    10 June 2025

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Summary

‘A brilliant novel about friendship, consent and displacement from a vibrant new voice’ Irish Examiner

‘The most unexpected close to a book that will take its place among the best of contemporary Irish fiction’ Nicholas Allen, Irish Times

‘Taut, accomplished and affecting’ Lucy Caldwell

Leaving home was hard. Returning is impossible.

Fiadh’s life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. Pret…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781399815871
ISBN-10:1399815873
Author:Aimée Walsh
Publisher:John Murray Press
Imprint:John Murray Publishers Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:10 June 2025
Weight:180g
Dimensions:18mm x 128mm x 196mm
A-Format
Exile by Aimée Walsh - ISBN: 9781399815871
128 × 196 mm
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C-Format
A4
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Critics Review

A dark, often bittersweet read where you’re so close to the action that it’s almost as if you can hear Fiadh breathe … important * Belfast Telegraph *
A taut, accomplished and affecting addition to the recent body of Belfast novels about the disaffected young, and the complicated tug that a place can have on you – Lucy Caldwell
Skilfully interrogates what it means to have a complex relationship with home, paints a stunningly realistic portrait of the awkward years between childhood and adult existence and is, above all, a cracking read – Jan Carson
A passionate, authoritative novel that maps with scrupulous detail the intensities and treacherously shifting allegiances of its cast – Colin Barrett
Visceral and compelling, Exile is an unflinching novel whose clear-eyed compassion burns brightly even in its darkest moments – Colin Walsh
An explosive debut … about the joys, sorrows and complexities of female friendship, and what it is to both leave home and to return changed – Alice Slater
An assured, unsentimental portrayal of youth … A compelling debut – EM Reapy
An eruption of a book by a phenomenal writer – Darran Anderson
I barely dared to blink while reading the final few pages … One of this year’s most highly anticipated releases, Aimée Walsh is a true literary talent. * Image *

About The Author

Aimée Walsh

Aimee Walsh is a writer from Belfast. Her writing has appeared in Extra Teeth, Refinery29, The Skinny and RTE.

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