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'Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me.' Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways
The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path towards him. Vera.
Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new, intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is it that Vera isn’t telling him?
Unfolding in the sea-bright, rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is a beautiful, cinematic novel about desire, longing, grief, hope and the things that remain unspoken. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choices we must also make alone.
The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path towards him. Vera.
Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new, intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is it that Vera isn’t telling him?
Unfolding in the sea-bright, rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is a beautiful, cinematic novel about desire, longing, grief, hope and the things that remain unspoken. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choices we must also make alone.
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"A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel by Karl Geary. He's yet another masterful younger writer coming through. But these writers aren't just promising, they are arriving fully fledged, like a bunch of Hemingways and Waughs. (A pride of Hemingways?) This is language on the side of life, suggesting life, giving life. Wonderful." (Sebastian Barry)
"Intensely powerful." (Sunday Mirror)
"Luminous...brilliantly paced, full of tension and tenderness." (Irish Times)
"Few novelists debut with a masterpiece, but Geary has done just that. Stunning." (Mail on Sunday)
"Montpelier Parade is haunting – a portrayal of loneliness that is eerily beautiful and desperately moving" (Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies)
"Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me." (Sunjeev Sahota)
"A genuine talent." (Daily Mail)
"The precision in his prose bellies his training as a scriptwriter; the plot unfolds with self-assured ease, and the dialogue lives on the page... He trusts his reader, and the novel has compulsive power because of it. An astonishing debut." (Calen O'Hanlon Skinny)
"A groundbreaking debut. Montpelier Parade is a taut, riveting, beautifully sparse coming of age tale from a fearless new talent" (Téa Obreht, National Book Award Finalist & New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife)
"I hope that someone will give me an advance copy... I’ve heard it’s lyrical, brave and inventive – everything I look for in a novel." (Maggie O'Farrell Observer, Book of the Year)
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"Intensely powerful." (Sunday Mirror)
"Luminous...brilliantly paced, full of tension and tenderness." (Irish Times)
"Few novelists debut with a masterpiece, but Geary has done just that. Stunning." (Mail on Sunday)
"Montpelier Parade is haunting – a portrayal of loneliness that is eerily beautiful and desperately moving" (Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies)
"Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me." (Sunjeev Sahota)
"A genuine talent." (Daily Mail)
"The precision in his prose bellies his training as a scriptwriter; the plot unfolds with self-assured ease, and the dialogue lives on the page... He trusts his reader, and the novel has compulsive power because of it. An astonishing debut." (Calen O'Hanlon Skinny)
"A groundbreaking debut. Montpelier Parade is a taut, riveting, beautifully sparse coming of age tale from a fearless new talent" (Téa Obreht, National Book Award Finalist & New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger's Wife)
"I hope that someone will give me an advance copy... I’ve heard it’s lyrical, brave and inventive – everything I look for in a novel." (Maggie O'Farrell Observer, Book of the Year)
Vera is beautiful and unknowable; Sonny is young and hungry for the world. Their connection changes everything.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2017
- ISBN 10 1911215450
- ISBN 13 9781911215455
- BindingHardcover
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