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Strange Flowers by Donal Ryan
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Strange Flowers

The Number One Bestseller
by Donal Ryan
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Narrator Donna Anita Nikolaisen

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Length 5 hours 58 minutes
Language English
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Summary

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.

Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.

Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family’s life forever.

Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.


'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving' David Nicholls

'With each new novel Donal Ryan's ink seems to sink deeper into the page. In Strange Flowers he gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul

'Exquisite … you will love the quiet world of Paddy & Kit Gladney and all it is their daughter Moll brings to their door. Beautiful' Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said

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Narrator Donna Anita Nikolaisen
ISBN 9781473571792
Length 5 hours 58 minutes
Language English
Publisher Transworld
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Edition Unabridged
Genres Fiction & Fiction - Literary
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Reviews

Here is love as a weapon and a balm. Love as faith, fate and redemption ... a gorgeously wrought book - compassionate without dissolving into nostalgia Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving A triumph ... Ryan slowly and beautifully reveals the way that even broken people can open the door fully to the truth of themselves His moving story of love and loss deserves to win a host of awards. It's an outstanding read I think you have to truly love people to write like this Expand reviews
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