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Snowflake
- Narrated by: Louisa Harland
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Snowflake
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Publisher's Summary
WINNER OF SUNDAY INDEPENDENT NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2021, AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS
Eighteen-year-old Debbie White lives on a dairy farm with her mother, Maeve, and her uncle, Billy. Billy sleeps out in a caravan in the garden with a bottle of whiskey and the stars overhead for company. Maeve spends her days recording her dreams, which she believes to be prophecies.
This world is Debbie's normal, but she is about to step into life as a student at Trinity College in Dublin. As she navigates between sophisticated new friends and the family bubble, things begin to unravel. Maeve's eccentricity tilts into something darker, while Billy's drinking gets worse. Debbie struggles to cope with the weirdest, most difficult parts of herself, her family and her small life. But the fierce love of the White family is never in doubt, and Debbie discovers that even the oddest of families are places of safety.
A startling, honest, laugh and cry novel about growing up and leaving home, only to find that you've taken it with you, Snowflake is a novel for a generation, and for everyone who's taken those first, terrifying steps towards adulthood.
Critic Reviews
"A beautiful novel; tender, laugh-out-loud funny and deeply moving." (Louise O'Neill)
"Mad and wonderful." (Roddy Doyle)
"Astonishing. Louise Nealon is a ridiculously talented writer." (Stacey Halls)
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- Anonymous User
- 30-07-2021
Brilliant
loved this book. Top ten of my all time reads. Beautiful, descriptive, real, at times raw and surprising.
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- Anonymous User
- 08-05-2022
absolutely sensational.
one of my most favourite reads yet! . sublime at times, humorous and ohhhh so human!
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- Nathan F.
- 01-08-2021
Exceptional
I found a new author to keep an eye out for. Just brilliant. after listening to this I needed a copy for my shelves.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-06-2021
Cute story
Highly enjoyable characters, story developed well and kept you interested although felt like not much actually happened. Performance was great, loved the narration. Recommend for those who liked Normal People and other coming-of-age stories.
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- Carole O'Sullivan
- 30-05-2021
Thought provoking, heart-rending and funny.
skilfully written and perfectly narrated. i didn't want it to end. will listen to it again.
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