"** PRE-ORDER NOW – FROM THE PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF TRESPASSES ** A BOOK OF THE AUTUMN IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER, COUNTRY & TOWNHOUSE AND MORE 'I loved it for the way it holds a national sorrow' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Moving, compassionate, a touching love story' DAVID NICHOLLS 'I gulped this down - convinced, fascinated and moved by every page' EMMA DONOGHUE 'A transcendent exploration of yearning, transformation and rescue' MIN JIN LEE _____ Roisin and Red meet as teenagers in their small Irish hometown in 1982. Brilliant, sharp-tongued and born to slip through the cracks, Red’s reputation for trouble precedes him – but Roisin finds herself swept up in his storm, and soon their connection deepens. When a brush with the law pushes Red into a corner, he escapes their town to start a new life in England. As the years pass, they remain tethered to one another, a fragile thread holding their once fierce friendship together. When Roisin arrives in London, the promise of freedom, of reinven