The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist’s search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland.
It is springtime, and two outcasts-- a man ignored, even shunned by his village, and the one-eyed dog he takes into his quiet, tightly shuttered life – find each other, by accident or fate, and forge
"When I finished Sara Baume's new novel I immediately felt sad that I could not send it in the post to the late John Berger. He, too, would have loved it and found great joy in its honesty, its agilit
A debut novel already praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride) this captivating story follows — over the course of four seasons — a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It
“Baume leaves nothing unturned in this dark and sometimes funny excavation of the human heart.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune "[She] is a writer of outstanding grace and style.
A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young for giving up', and One Eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accus
The author of the award-winning Spill Simmer Falter Wither returns with a stunning new novel about a young artist's search for meaning and healing in rural Ireland. Struggling to cope with urban life
A debut novel already praised as "unbearably poignant and beautifully told" (Eimear McBride), this captivating story follows—over the course of four seasons—a misfit man who adopts a misfit dog. It is