The Quiet Whispers Never Stop - Olivia Fitzsimons

AN IRISH EXAMINER BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BUTLER LITERARY AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O''BRIEN AWARD''Touching and darkly beautiful'' Irish Sunday Independent''Powerful, uncompromising'' Irish Times''Utterly absorbing, a novel that keeps you guessing right to the end'' Kit de Waal1982. Northern Ireland. Nuala Malin is tied to a life she doesn''t want by her daughter Sam and baby son PJ. An affair with a seventeen-year-old boy reminds her of a future she hasn''t given up on, but it can''t last, and when her chance to leave comes, she takes it.1994. If Sam Malin has a god then it is Kurt Cobain. Music is the only thing that brings her peace. She wants a life away from the North and its troubles, away from her da who can''t talk about the past but seems stuck there, waiting for Sam''s mother to return. A mother Sam barely knew.Escape seems out of reach until Sam meets a jagged, magnetic older man, drawn to him in a way she can''t yet comprehend.She falls for him, unable to say no.Sam is more like her mother than she knows.