Tender and profoundly moving,
The Amendments
is at once the novel of a nation over four decades, a love story, and an intricate family drama that will break your heart.
‘An extraordinary achievement.
is about a lot of things - love, family, girlhood, growing up, sex, legacy, compassion - all blended into a moving plot’
- Jessie Burton, author of
The Miniaturist
Nell and her partner Adrienne are about to have a baby. For Adrienne, parenthood is the start of a new life. For Nell, it’s the reason the two of them are sitting in a therapist’s office. Because she can’t go into this without facing the painful truth: that she has been a mother before.
For Dolores, Nell’s mother, the news also brings a reckoning: with the way her daughter’s life unfolded fifteen years ago, with its inextricable ties to her own past, and with the tragedy that neither of them have spoken about since . . .
'Engrossing and moving'
- Emma Donoghue, author of
Room
'It cuts to the heart of what it means to be human’
- Elizabeth Macneal, author of
The Doll Factory
‘As significant as it is enjoyable’
- Emma Stonex, author of
The Lamplighters
'Wonderfully compelling'
- Joseph O'Connor, author of
Star of the Sea
Set in Ireland against the backdrop of a series of abortion referendums
,
is the debut novel from Niamh Mulvey, author of
Hearts and Bones
, and was selected by the
Irish Independent
, the
Irish Times
Irish Journal
and
VIP
as one of the most anticipated novels of the year.