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**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**
Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.
'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY
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Enright’s middle-aged main character is richly drawn and every bit as gorgeous as her beautiful and troubled adult daughter.
This is a story about mothers and adult daughters building each other up and tearing each other to pieces at the same time. I laughed, I cried, and I read it all over again.
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