Exile

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A01=Aimee Walsh
Author_Aimee Walsh
Belfast
Category=FBA
coming of age
coming of age fiction
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female friendship
feminist fiction
feminist rage
Irish women writers
Irish writing
Liverpool
MeToo fiction
Millennial fiction
Northern Irish writing
surviving assault
the Troubles
Troubles fiction
university setting

Product details

  • ISBN 9781399815871
  • Weight: 180g
  • Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Mar 2025
  • Publisher: John Murray Press
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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'A brilliant novel about friendship, consent and displacement from a vibrant new voice' Irish Examiner

'The most unexpected close to a book that will take its place among the best of contemporary Irish fiction' Nicholas Allen, Irish Times

'Taut, accomplished and affecting' Lucy Caldwell


Leaving home was hard. Returning is impossible.

Fiadh's life is turned completely upside down on a night out in Belfast. Pretty soon everyone has heard about what happened; it is impossible to keep the rumours from spreading, the gossip from spiralling out of control. And just as she was beginning to finally figure everything out: she was feeling positive about her move to Liverpool, she was starting to get on top of her uni work and had made some new friends. Now her life is in freefall and Fiadh is helpless to do anything about it.

She starts missing assignment deadlines, stops turning up to class and doesn't respond to any of her friends' messages. Her nights revolve around random hook ups, fuelled by drink and drugs. Without the tightknit group of friends she left behind at home or the support of the new friends she has made in Liverpool, Fiadh's life quickly descends into chaos, a chaos that nearly costs her everything.

Aimee Walsh is a writer from Belfast. Her writing has appeared in Extra Teeth, Refinery29, The Skinny and RTE.

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