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Title: The Lives of Women
Condition: New
Author: Christine Dwyer Hickey
EAN: 9781805464419
ISBN: 9781805464419
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1805464418
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Type: Paperback
Release Date: 07/08/2025
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Fiction
Language: English
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 19mm
Release Year: 2025
Description:

The stunning new novel from Christine Dwyer Hickey, bestselling author of Last Train from Liguria.

'One of Ireland's most lauded modern writers, Christine Dwyer Hickey teases out the strands of her story... It leaves the reader with the aftertaste of regret for their own what might have been...' - Daily Mail

Following a long absence spent in New York, Elaine Nichols returns to her childhood home to live with her invalid father and his geriatric Alsatian dog. The house backing on to theirs is sold and as she watches the old furniture stack up on the lawn, Elaine is brought back to a summer in the 1970s.

She is almost sixteen again and this small out-of-town estate is an enclave for women and children while the men are mysterious shadows who leave every day for the outside world. The women are isolated but keep their loneliness and frustrations hidden behind a veneer of suburban respectability. When an American divorcee and her daughter move into the estate, the veneer begins to crack. The women learn how to socialise, how to drink martinis in the afternoon, how to care less about their wifely and maternal duties.

While the women are distracted, Elaine and her friends find their own entry into the adult world and the result is a tragic event that will mark the rest of Elaine's life and be the cause of her long and guilt-ridden exile.

Insightful and full of suspense, this is an uncompromising portrayal of the suburbs and the cruelties brought about by the demands of respectability.

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