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Montpelier Parade

Karl Geary

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English
Vintage
30 October 2017
SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017

Vera is beautiful and unknowable; Sonny is young and hungry for the world. Their connection changes everything.

Selected as a Book of the Year in 2017 in the Irish Times and The Times

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2017

'A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel... He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through... Wonderful' - Sebastian Barry

Her house is on Montpelier Parade - just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Sonny is fixing a crumbling wall in the garden when he sees her for the first time, coming down the path towards him. Vera.

Vera is older, wealthier, sophisticated, but chance meetings quickly become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. But there is something unsettling that Vera is keeping from him. Unfolding in the sea-bright Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is an indelible novel about the things that remain unspoken between lovers. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choices we must make alone.

Longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize 2017

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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 15mm
Weight:   170g
ISBN:   9781784705664
ISBN 10:   1784705667
Pages:   240
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Karl Geary was born in Dublin, and moved to New York City at age sixteen. He has worked as a script writer (Coney Island Baby), and an actor (Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, and Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall), and has adapted and directed Dorothy Parker's `You Were Perfectly Fine' for the screen. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and daughter.

Reviews for Montpelier Parade

Pitch-perfect...an auspicious debut. Guardian Luminous...brilliantly paced, full of tension and tenderness. Irish Times Few novelists debut with a masterpiece, but Geary has done just that. Stunning. Mail on Sunday Montpelier Parade is haunting - a portrayal of loneliness that is eerily beautiful and desperately moving -- Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me. -- Sunjeev Sahota


  • Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize 2017 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards - Newcomer of the Year 2017 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Bord Gais Energy Irish Book Awards - Newcomer of the Year 2017 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Costa First Novel Award 2018 (UK)
  • Short-listed for Waverton Good Read Award 2018 (UK)
  • Short-listed for writers' guild best first novel 2018 (UK)

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