| Summary |
An iron-willed young woman leaves her life in Dublin and travels through London and New York to secure her dysfunctional family's future after the departure of her career-oriented father. This novel brings to life the charged, compulsive voice of Gael Foess, daughter of a self-interested investment banker and a once-formidable orchestral conductor, and sister to a vulnerable younger brother, as she strives to build a life raft in the midst of economic and familial collapse. Moving by wits alone, Gael cuts a swathe through the leather-lined, coke-dusted social clubs of London, the New York gallery scene and birth-throes of the Occupy movement. This novel is a modern-day Bildungsroman that chews through sexuality, class and contemporary politics. It examines how we can fail our loved ones by what we want for them; what makes for a good life; what we are owed and what we must earn; and how events in our lives can turn us into people we never intended to be. |
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Women -- Ireland -- Fiction.
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Young women -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
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Occupy movement -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Domestic fiction.
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Bildungsromans.
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| ISBN |
9781524761103
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1524761109
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