"All she wants is a new country, a new language, new food. New people,
new stories... She wants all this newness - which is as old as the
hills - to encourage her, enclose her, remake her... She feels this,
though she doesn't really believe it."
In these eleven stories, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne draws us into the lives of
characters struggling to find equilibrium. Visited by change and crisis,
they are forced to confront the stories that define their sense of
themselves and their place in the world. Beautifully written and sharply
observed, this dazzling and daring collection is a deft exploration of
the complexities of human desire - its darkness, its incoherence, its
potential to help us tell a new story.