SHAKING OFF SADNESS Forthcoming in June 2019 by Marion McGuinness 256 pages | €16.00 | 14 x 20.5 cm • A story about resilience, family, life choices and letting go. • An appealing heroine: a modern woman who is complex and nuanced, an engaging character. •...
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SHAKING OFF SADNESS Forthcoming in June 2019 by Marion McGuinness 256 pages | €16.00 | 14 x 20.5 cm • A story about resilience, family, life choices and letting go. • An appealing heroine: a modern woman who is complex and nuanced, an engaging character. • The perfect tone for portraying grief, the emptiness of missing someone who has died, and the mother-child relationship. t THE NOVEL t Élise, 31, feels that her life is already over. What on earth was her husband thinking of a year ago by dying quietly and unex- pectedly just when she was pregnant with their first child? Since then the only thing that has kept her (more or less) alive is her son, and her only contact with the outside world is li- mited to putting up with her mother without losing her tem- per and scoffing chocolates with Manou, the old lady next door. When Manou gives Élise the keys to her holiday home on the west coast of France, and suggests that she and her sadness Marion McGuinness is an author and take a trip,
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