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Win copies of He Is Mine And I Have No Other for your reading group

In 1990s-small-town Ireland, amid the sweaty school discos and first fumblings of adolescence, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani’s house.

Lani is haunted by the stories of thirty-five orphaned girls, buried in an unmarked grave near Leon’s mother. As the love story unfolds, and then unravels, it becomes clear that Leon too is haunted – by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep.

He Is Mine and I Have No Other is a captivating, eerie and atmospheric novel about the obsessive power of first love, about the claustrophobia a tight-knit family and community can cause, and about buried secrets and the havoc they wreak.

We have six sets of ten copies of He Is Mine and I Have No Other to give away. To enter, just email [email protected] telling us a bit about your group. We will pick six reading groups to receive sets of He Is Mine and I Have No Other out of all of the groups that email in.

‘I adored He is Mine and I Have No Other . . . Amazing, heartbreaking, brilliantly done’ DONAL RYAN, author of THE SPINNING HEART and ALL WE SHALL KNOW

‘He Is Mine And I Have No Other is a book of secrets, and it burns with the sadness and starkness particular to lives forced into secrecy and silence’ BELINDA McKEON, author of SOLACE and TENDER

‘God this book is brilliant. It sends you, helter-skelter, back to life as a fifteen-year-old and all the intensity of that age’ JESS KIDD, author of HIMSELF and THE HOARDER

‘(V)ivid, authentic and compelling and may be the truest depiction of Irish rural girlhood since Edna O’Brien’s Girl With Green Eyes’ PATRICK McCABE, Booker-shortlisted author of BREAKFAST ON PLUTO and THE BUTCHER BOY

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