La escritura de Doreen Finn profundiza en las profundidades de la experiencia humana, explorando relaciones complejas y las vidas interiores de sus personajes a través de un estilo literario distintivo. Su obra se caracteriza por una aguda perspicacia y un lenguaje poético que atrae a los lectores al corazón de la narrativa. Finn se dedica a capturar la esencia de la vida y sus verdades tácitas. Ella crea historias que resuenan con profunda honestidad emocional.
Nine-year-old Megan lives in a redbrick house in Dublin with her mother, a beautiful and lonely artist, and her grandmother; her father's whereabouts are a mystery. When an American family moves in downstairs and Megan's mother begins a tentative affair with the father, everything that Megan is sure of starts to unravel.
What happens when you no longer recognise the person you have become? Eva has managed to spend her twenties successfully hiding from herself in New York. Attempting to write, but really only writing her epitaph, she returns to Ireland to confront the past that has made her what she is. In prose that is hauntingly beautiful and delicate, Doreen Finn explores a truly complex and fascinating character with deft style and unflinching honesty.