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FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL POLITICAL FICTION BOOK PRIZE 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE CHARLOTTE AITKEN SUNDAY TIMES YOUNG WRITER OF THE YEAR AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARD FOR ‘NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR’A young girl spends her days on a double-decker bus. A bride-to-be prays to St Valentine’s bones. Bouquets are found all over a museum. Teenagers gather to dissect a human body. Brimming with compassion and thrumming with energy, these stories are scrupulous in their attention to detail, epic in their scope. In this bravura debut collection, Liadan N� Chuinn delivers a consummate blend of the personal and the political.

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