Louise Doughty
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"After the death of Laura's nine-year-old daughter, Betty, is ruled an accident in a hit-and-run, Laura decides to take revenge into her own hands, determined to track down the man responsible. All the while, her inner turmoil is reopening the old wounds of her passionate love affair with Betty's father, David, and his abandonment of the family for another woman. Haunted by her past and driven to a breaking point by her thirst for retribution, Laura...
2) Terminus
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A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love.
A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and begins to unfurl, until someone turns up to claim her.
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In this erotic, emotional debut novel, a young man is torn between two cities, two cultures, and two women.
Disillusioned with his marriage to the controlling Ursula, shattered by the death of his sister, and unsettled by the vandals threatening the security of his home, Stephen, a young Dubliner, moves to New York hoping to make a clean start.
He is quickly swept up in an affair with Holfy, a fiercely independent woman fifteen years his senior,...