The Coast Road

A brilliantly observed debut novel about two women in a small Irish community in 1994 – the year before divorce was made legal *WINNER OF THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDS: NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2024 * *SHORTLISTED FOR THE McKITTERICK PRIZE AND JOHN McGAHERN PRIZE 2025* *A WATERSTONES AND BA INDIE BOOK OF THE MONTH MAY 2025* ‘A perfect book club read ... Assured and powerful’ SUNDAY TIMES ‘I loved this novel ... An addictive read’ GILLIAN ANDERSON ‘Moves between rage, forgiveness and hope ... A stonkingly good novel’ SARAH WINMAN ‘A beautiful, accomplished debut’ LOUISE KENNEDY It’s 1994 in County Donegal, Ireland, and everyone is talking about Colette Crowley: the writer, the bohemian, the woman who left her family to be with a married man in Dublin. Returning to pick up the pieces of her old life, Colette finds that nothing – and everything – has changed. When the man to whom she is still married denies her access to their children, Colette enlists the help of Izzy, a housewife and mother of two, and the women forge a friendship that will send them on a spiralling journey – one towards a path of self-discovery, and the other towards tragedy. A WOMAN & HOME and NB. MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024