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A Famished Heart

Nicola White

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English
Serpent Books
03 March 2020
Her head was bowed, and the hands braced on the chair arms were not like hands at all, but the dry dark claws of a bird...

The Macnamara sisters hadn't been seen for months before anyone noticed. It was Father Timoney who finally broke down the door. One woman was sitting in her armchair, surrounded by religious tracts, the other was crouched under her own bed. Both had starved themselves to death.

Francesca Macnamara returns to Dublin after decades in the US, to find her family in ruins. Meanwhile, Detectives Vincent Swan and Gina Considine are convinced that there is more to the deaths than suicide. Because what little evidence there is, shows that someone was watching the sisters die...

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Imprint:   Serpent Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 24mm
Weight:   260g
ISBN:   9781788164085
ISBN 10:   1788164083
Series:   The Vincent Swan Mysteries
Pages:   368
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nicola White won the Scottish Book Trust New Writer Award in 2008 and in 2012 was Leverhulme Writer in Residence at Edinburgh University. Her novel The Rosary Garden won the Dundee International Book Prize, was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize, and selected as one of the four best debuts by Val McDermid at Harrogate. She grew up in Dublin and New York, and now lives in the Scottish Highlands.

Reviews for A Famished Heart

Fabulous Dublin-based crime. Dark, atmospheric, well-written. Very much in the vein of Tana French. -- Jo Spain, bestselling author of The Confession An intriguing, compelling and highly entertaining story. Formidably impressive writing! -- Liz Nugent, award-winning author of Unravelling Oliver A fabulous closed room mystery that will keep you guessing until the very end. This is a gorgeously poetic deep-dive into the pieties and myth-making of Dublin in the early eighties. -- Denise Mina, acclaimed author of Conviction A mesmerising tale of secrets and lies rising from the past to strangle the present. -- Val McDermid on The Rosary Garden


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