Dublin, 7 October 2019

One day, one city, two women: Ruth and Pen. Neither known to the other, but both asking themselves the same questions: how to be with others and how, when the world doesn't seem willing to make space for them, to be with themselves?

Ruth's marriage to Aidan is in crisis. Today she needs to make a choice - to stay or not to stay, to take the risk of reaching out, or to pull up the drawbridge.

For teenage Pen, today is the day the words will flow, and she will speak her truth to Alice, to ask for what she so desperately wants.

Deeply involving, poignant and radiantly intelligent, it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love, of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes, and the tender courage demanded by the simple, daily quest of living.

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ISBN/EAN 9780241573297
Author Emilie Pine
Publisher Penguin Random House
Imprint Hamish Hamilton
Publication date 5 May 2022
Format Paperback
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Ruth and Pen (A Novel)

Emilie Pine
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The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine, author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF

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