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Anna Fitzgerald was born and raised in Dublin. Girl in the Making is her first novel.
This novel captures the dull brutality of a family in thrall to the wrong man. Anna Fitzgerald works through the eyes of a growing child, in a voice that is rich in nostalgic effect and devastating in its content, to show the Dublin suburbs as we have not seen them before. -- Anne Enright Girl in the Making is a beautiful story that captures the wisdom of childhood. Open this book and step into the world of Jean Kennedy. Prepare to be quietly transformed. -- Louise Nealon Furious, tender, and redemptive, with a register that lands somewhere between Jeanette Winterson and Sinéad O'Connor – yet Fitzgerald has a voice that's completely her own, writing with such power and control it's hard to believe this is her debut. Girl in the Making is magnificent. -- Aingeala Flannery Writing this good is a rare thing. Anna Fitzgerald's account of childhood and family in 1970s and ’80s Dublin is a masterful portrait of a place in time. Told with visceral intimacy, Girl in the Making is a powerful indictment of the corrosive effects of toxic masculinity on a young girl's life. This writer has arrived fully formed. -- Kathleen MacMahon Nostalgic, rich, intimate and authentic * Irish Times * There is a poignant mix of insight and innocence that harks back to O’Briens The Country Girls -- Sarah Gilmartin * Irish Times * This novel is devastating. And superb' -- Anne Cunnigham * Irish Independent *
