A History of Running Away
$38.90
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
2 May 2018
Summary
Book of the Year in the Irish Times
‘A wonderful storyteller’ Joseph O’Connor
On the quays of Dublin, Jasmine is running, training for a fight she can’t compete in. It’s 1982 and boxing is illegal for girls.
For Jasmine boxing is everything: after running away from home, and narrowly escaping a risky situation in London, it is all she has to claim as her own. But with a legal fight impossible, and a ghost from her past on her trail, where can it end?
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781473641785 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1473641780 |
| Author: | Paula McGrath |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 2 May 2018 |
| Weight: | 181g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 16mm |
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Critics Review
This beautifully written novel is urgently contemporary in its concerns but is also a quietly compelling exploration of the notions of home and belonging. Paula McGrath is a wonderful storyteller with a vivid sense of place and person - Joseph O’Connor
Depicts a brutal world with astonishing tenderness and builds a clever, intriguing story, creating memorable characters along the way - Emma HendersonA thoroughly modern, engaging and sophisticated novel about women who reach for better lives and are forced to run away to achieve them - Liz NugentExplores relationships between mothers and their children, and the concept of family as a whole - Irish Country MagazineMcGrath captures Dublin of the 1980s perfectly … Ambitious, both structurally and narratively, and elegantly written. McGrath’s insights into the mind of Jasmine as she delves deeper into the world of the then-illegal realm of women’s boxing are shrewd, and the novel reaches a crescendo of emotion when the various strands connect, in an authentic, credible and ultimately poignant fashion - John Boyne, Irish TimesElegant … Compelling reading - Daily MailThe writing is fluid and accessible, the dialogue and setting authentic, proving Paula McGrath both a consummate storyteller and an excellent observer of human interactions - Sunday IndependentMcGrath writes well and delivers some fine flourishes - Irish Sunday TimesAbout The Author
Paula McGrath
Paula McGrath lives in Dublin. Her first novel, Generation, was published in 2015, and described as ‘remarkable’ by the Sunday Times. She has a background in English Literature and is currently a doctoral student at the University of Limerick. In another life she was a yoga teacher.
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