Home Scar From the Women’s Prize-longlisted author of Nothing But Blue Sky
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The Home Scar is Kathleen MacMahon's fourth novel. Her debut, This is How it Ends, spent five weeks at the top of the bestseller lists in Ireland, and was a Richard and Judy Book Club choice in the UK. It was followed by The Long, Hot Summer, also a bestseller in Ireland, and Nothing But Blue Sky, which was nominated for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2021. Kathleen is a former radio and television journalist with Ireland's national broadcaster, RTÉ, and she lives in Dublin with her family.A powerful story about legacy and loss and the possibility of reconciliation
Irish Times
Her beautifully simple style belies psychological complexity . . . and her tone is wryly accepting
Big Issue
Quiet and bleakly beautiful . . . like the siblings and Ireland, it will leave a permanent mark on those who venture into its depths
Buzz
Picks at the wounds only a mother can inflict . . . ambitious . . . intricate
Sunday Independent
An exceptional novel about a brother and sister returning to the west of Ireland and to a summer of their past.
- Anne Griffin, Sunday Independent
MacMahon writes with such beautiful simplicity, conjuring real and complex people straight off the page . . . subtle and authentic
- Claire Fuller,
Thoughtful, understated . . . it has a quiet power
Irish Independent
Wonderful
- Brendan O'Connor, RTÉ
A gorgeous story of sibling love. It reads like a psychological adventure story into memory
- Louise Nealon,
A spell-binding story of inherited grief and the unbreakable bond between siblings as they unpick memories of their shared past . . . [MacMahon's] characters feel authentic and relatable for all their flaws
- Aingeala Flannery,