He is Mine and I Have No Other

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Pub Date Jun 07 2018 | Archive Date Jun 07 2018
Canongate Books | Cannogate Books

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Description

'I was frightened of him in a way  of his grief, his loneliness  for he looked like the loneliest person on earth just then . . . the type of boy who wondered about things, as I did, who broke his heart wondering about things . . .'

In 1990s-small-town Ireland, amid the sweaty school discos and first fumblings of adolescence, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani's house.

Lani is haunted by the stories of thirty-five orphaned girls, buried in an unmarked grave near Leon's mother. As the love story unfolds, and then unravels, it becomes clear that Leon too is haunted – by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep.

He Is Mine and I Have No Other is a captivating, eerie and atmospheric novel about the obsessive power of first love, about the claustrophobia a tight-knit family and community can cause, and about buried secrets and the havoc they wreak.

'I was frightened of him in a way  of his grief, his loneliness  for he looked like the loneliest person on earth just then . . . the type of boy who wondered about things, as I did, who broke his...


Available Editions

EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781786892591
PRICE £12.99 (GBP)

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