Academy Street : A Novel

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Eason Novel of the Year 2014

Winner of the Irish Book Awards Bord Gais Energy Book of the Year 2014

Academy Street is the heart-breaking and evocative story of one womans life spanning six decades. Tesss childhood in 1940s rural Ireland is defined by the sudden death of her mother.

Later, in New York, she encounters the ferocious power and calamity of love, and the effects of catastrophic fate. The novel resonates with the rhythms of memory and home as well as those of Americas greatest city.

This is an intimate story about unexpected gifts and unbearable losses, and the perpetual ache for belonging. It is exquisitely written and profoundly moving.