Strange Flowers

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<b>WINNER of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020</b> <b> 'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving'</b> <b>David Nicholls</b> <b>'A triumph ... the best novel I've read so far this year' Joseph O'Connor</b> <b> <i>________________</i> </b> <b> In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. </b> 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. <b>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.</b> ________________ <b>'Here is love as a weapon and a balm ... A gorgeously wrought book' </b><i>Guardian </i> '<b>Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written</b>' <i>Independent</i> <b><i>'</i>All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' </b>Kathleen MacMahon <i>'</i><b>Exquisite ... Beautiful</b>' Anne Griffin, author of <i>When All Is Said</i> <b>'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' </b>Rónán Hession, author of <i>Leonard and Hungry Paul</i>