Catherine Airey Confessions

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Description: Binding: Paperback
Date Published: 23 Jan 2025

'I was at a time in my life where I got to thinking more about people's choices – how everything would be different if just the slightest decision changed...'

It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of adulthood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of Cora's family is hidden, and in her presence will begin to unspool…

An essential, immersive debut from an astonishing new voice, Confessions traces the arc of three generations of women as they experience in their own time the irresistible gravity of the past: its love and tragedy, its mystery and redemption, and, in all things intended and accidental, the beauty and terrible shade of the things we do.

‘A remarkable debut. A complex and compulsive read that unravels the intricate twists and revelations among three generations of women with elegance and urgency.’ Miranda Cowley Heller, bestselling author of THE PAPER PALACE

'CONFESSIONS is a beating heart of a novel, intricate both in its weaving and its unspooling. An irresistible read.' Yael van der Wouden, Booker-shortlisted author of THE SAFEKEEP
About the Author: Catherine Airey grew up in England in a family of mixed English-Irish descent, and now lives between County Cork and Bristol. Confessions is her first novel.
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Reviews

An intricately woven epic, Confessions is both intimate and expansive, a novel that teems with raw, hungry life -- Colin Walsh, author of KALA
An ambitious debut * Sunday Times, Books to look forward to in 2025 *
Propulsive and utterly captivating ... Airey has shades of the American novelists Donna Tartt and Jeffrey Eugenides in her style * Irish Times *
CONFESSIONS is a beating heart of a novel, intricate both in its weaving and its unspooling. An irresistible read -- Yael van der Wouden, author of THE SAFEKEEP
Confessions certainly hails the arrival of a new literary talent. She has a beautiful turn of phrase, enormous compassion for her characters and is not afraid to dig into themes both big and small - of legacy and belonging, mental illness, bodily autonomy and the long, messy tail of grief in all its forms... Confessions really excels. * iPaper *
Three generations' worth of secrets unravel in this magnificent debut * iPaper, Books to read in 2025 *
This ambitious novel, the subject of a fierce bidding war, is sure to show up on award shortlists * RED *
A complex, assured novel that explores how the past inescapably shapes the present * Financial Times, What to Read in 2025 *
An absolute triumph * Bookseller *
[An] impressive debut...Airey has taken flight with a well-written, engaging first novel. * Independent, Book of the Month *

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