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Unspoken History

Historical/Upmarket Fiction

80,000 words

Two cousins, alike bereaved in Belfast, Simon and Aisling part ways to pursue vastly different lives until a mass prison break from the Maze in Northern Ireland forces a reckoning with their shared past.

There’s no escaping the past. Obliged to abandon a romantic weekend in response to his Dublin grandmother’s plea for help finding his vanished cousin Aisling, he’s not expecting to face an escaped IRA prisoner bent on revenge against her. How far will he go to keep the family’s violent past in Belfast secret and his loved ones safe? 

This novel should be enjoyed by fans of Milkman, by Anna Burns, Northern Spy, by Flynn Berry, and The Last Crossing, by Brian McGilloway

What to Expect: Dual POV, dual timeline, female perspectives, characters struggling to overcome the heritage of historic violence they were born into.

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