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As You Were
Elaine Feeney
As You Were
Synopsis
Sinéad Hynes is a tough, driven, funny young property developer with a terrifying secret.
No-one knows it: not her fellow patients in a failing hospital, and certainly not her family. She has confided only in Google and a shiny magpie.
But she can't go on like this, tirelessly trying to outstrip her past and in mortal fear of her future. Somehow, Sinéad needs to seize the moment, and maybe then she can learn to be free...
An Evening Standard, Observer and Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
An Observer Best Debut 2020
Winner of the Dalkey Book Festival Emerging Writer Award
Winner of the McKitterick Prize 2020
Winner of the Kate O'Brien Award 2021
Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year 2020
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Elaine Feeney
Elaine Feeney is a writer from Ireland and she lectures at The National University of Ireland, Galway. Feeney has published three collections of poetry including The Radio was Gospel and Rise. She wrote the award-winning drama piece with the Liz Roche Company, WRoNGHEADED which opened at the Dublin Fringe Festival and ran for the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Feeney’s short story Sojourn was included in The Art of The Glimpse, 100 Irish Short Stories Edited by Sinead Gleeson. As You Were (Vintage) - her debut novel was shortlisted for The Irish Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, included in top debuts of 2020 in The Observer, shortlisted for The Kate O’ Brien Award, chosen by Booker Prize Winner, Douglas Stuart as best read of 2020. It has recently been shortlisted for The Rathbone’s Folio Prize, honouring the best work of English Literature in any genre. Feeney featured in various Best of 2020 lists including The Telegraph, Herald (Scotland), Irish Independent, Evening Standard, Guardian, Observer, Sunday Times, Foyles and Irish Times.