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Strange Flowers
- Narrated by: Donna Anita Nikolaisen
- Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
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Publisher's Summary
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.
Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever.
Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
Critic Reviews
'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls
'Exquisite … you will love the quiet world of Paddy & Kit Gladney and all it is their daughter Moll brings to their door. Beautiful' Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said
'With each new novel Donal Ryan's ink seems to sink deeper into the page. In Strange Flowers he gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
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- Kerry Kilner
- 31-01-2021
Gracious, deep, astounding
This novel is sublimely good. The first Donal Ryan I have read and I'll now go on to read everything though I can't imagine any could be as good as this. It's a novel about the greatness in ordinary people and and the complexities in ordinary human relationships. Ryan elevates love and the emotional life to a justifiable height. Every character resonates with truth.
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