The Amendments
A deeply moving, multi-generational story about love and longing
by Niamh Mulvey
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Pub Date Sep 03 2024 | Archive Date Oct 17 2024
Pan Macmillan | Picador
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Description
Selected by the Irish Independent, Irish Times, and the Irish Journal as one of the most anticipated novels of the year.
This sweeping family saga tells the story of three generations of Irish women and their struggle to find love, meaning, and freedom against the backdrop of enormous social and cultural change.
Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, it's the start of a new life. For Nell, it's the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist's office. Because she can't go into this without dealing with the truth: that she has been a mother before, and now she can't bring herself to speak to her own mother, let alone return home to Ireland.
Nell is running out of places to hide from her past.
But to Ireland and the past is where she must go, and that is where The Amendments takes us: to the heat of Nell's teenage years in the early 2000s, as Ireland was unpicking itself from its faith and embracing the hedonism of the Celtic Tiger. To 1983, when Nell's mother Dolores was grappling with the tensions of the women's rights movement. And then to the farms and suburbs and towns that made and unmade the lives at the centre of this story, bound together by the terrible secret that Nell still cannot face.
Delving into the lives of three generations of women, The Amendments is an extraordinary novel about love and freedom, belonging and rebellion, and about how our past is a vital presence which sits alongside us.
Advance Praise
"Having already caught the attention of prize juries with her short fiction, Niamh Mulvey delivers a questing first novel of significant prowess...[Mulvey] touches on complex questions of belonging, freedom and motherhood. Without detracting from its own satisfying ending, The Amendments suggests that the search for answers is an evolving, lifelong undertaking." —The Observer
"A smart, subtle, engrossing and moving novel that gives voice to so much that's unspoken about Ireland and about youth." —Emma Donoghue, bestselling author of Room and The Wonder
"An extraordinary achievement. The Amendments is about a lot of things - love, family, girlhood, growing up, sex, legacy, compassion - all blended into a moving plot, expertly handled. Wonderful." —Jessie Burton, bestselling author of The Miniaturist
"Niamh Mulvey's wonderfully compelling characters and deft, clear prose offer great pleasure. Her sense of political and cultural change is sharp, and the beauty she finds in days of struggle is haunting." —Joseph O'Connor, author of My Father's House and Shadowplay
Available Editions
EDITION | Hardcover |
ISBN | 9781529079852 |
PRICE | CA$37.99 (CAD) |
PAGES | 336 |