As You Were
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As You Were
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Narrated by:
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Siobhan O'Kelly
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By:
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Elaine Feeney
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
One of the Observer's 10 Best Debut Novelists of 2020.
Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.
No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.
But she can’t go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Across the ward, Margaret Rose is running her chaotic family from her rose-gold Nokia. In the neighbouring bed, Jane, rarely but piercingly lucid, is searching for a decent bra and for someone to listen. Sinéad needs them both.
As You Were is about intimate histories, institutional failures, the kindness of strangers and the darkly present past of modern Ireland. It is about women’s stories and women’s struggles. It is about seizing the moment to be free.
Wildly funny, desperately tragic, inventive and irrepressible, As You Were introduces a brilliant voice in Irish fiction with a book that is absolutely of our times.
©2020 Elaine Feeney (P)2020 Penguin AudioCritic Reviews
"An absolute tour de force: raw, sharp and wild." (Lisa McInerney)
"A truly original voice. Raw, urgent and uncompromising about the lengths we go to to conceal hurt, deception, psychic pain.... A brilliant portrayal of the kindness of strangers, the kinship of women and the heartbreak of married love." (Mary Costello)
"Elaine Feeney's voice is utterly singular, thrilling, unpredictable, a continuous pleasure. It seems trite in the face of such a captivating and original novel to say that we're lucky to have her - but we are." (Nicole Flattery)