Tell Me What I Am

''Beautiful, haunting.'' LOUISE KENNEDY ''Vividly real . . . There''s love here as well as pain.'' MARIAN KEYES ''A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.'' IRISH TIMES ''I loved it.'' LIZ NUGENT Please don''t hang up. I don''t know if you remember. You used to live with me. You and your mother. Ruby lives with her father in an old farmhouse at the end of a dirt road. He teaches her to hunt, to forage for mushrooms, to gut a fish. She learns to tiptoe around his temper - and never to ask about her absent mother. Ruby has no idea that, hundreds of miles away, a woman she barely remembers is desperate to answer those same questions. Captivating, tender and deeply moving, Tell Me What I Am is an unforgettable portrait of the indelible bonds of family - and how far we will go for the ones we love. ''Haunting and deeply moving.'' OBSERVER ''Propulsive and richly atmospheric.'' IRISH INDEPENDENT ''An engrossing, deftly-told story with an aching secret at its heart, this is a profoundly moving novel of family and women standing strong together.'' LISA BALLANTYNE ''Sharp, poignant, thrilling and moving.'' CHRIS WHITAKER ''Compelling . . . Mannion writes with a lyrical economy that stands out, and always shows a deep empathy for her well-drawn characters.'' IRISH EXAMINER ''A wrenching portrait of the umbilical bond between mother and child and, more powerfully still, an icily persuasive account of the subtle dark arts of male coercion and abuse.'' DAILY MAIL WHAT READERS ARE SAYING: ''A brilliantly told story, engrossing, with love, pain, heartbreak and darkness. The characterisation was excellent and the plot was moving and gently woven.'' 5 reader review ''I raced through... Well-written, incredibly tense and chilling in parts.'' 5 reader review ''A book to savour and appreciate as well as enjoy.'' 5 reader review ''This is such a powerful story of love and family. It kept me awake desperate to find out what had happened to affect them all so badly.'' 5 reader review ''This is a beautifully written novel with powerfully drawn characters.'' 5 reader review ''Had me hooked... Loved it.'' 5 reader review ''Wow what a book!'' 5 reader review *Una Mannion''s first novel, A Crooked Tree , is available now** ...

Autorentext
Una Mannion is based in County Sligo Ireland. Her debut novel A Crooked Tree made the Irish bestsellers list, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards and the Dalkey Emerging Writer Award and won the Kate O'Brien Prize. Her second novel Tell Me What I Am was shortlisted for the Encore Awards and was the winner of the prestigious Gold Dagger at the CWA Dagger Awards. She edits The Cormorant, a broadsheet of poetry and prose and teaches creative writing at the Oscar Wilde Centre and English Department of Trinity College Dublin.

Zusammenfassung
Captivating, tender and deeply moving, Tell Me What I Am is an unforgettable portrait of the indelible bonds of family - and how far we will go for the ones we love.