Tell Me What I Am by Una Mannion

'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY 'Vividly real . . .There's love here as well as pain.' MARIAN KEYES 'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . .absorbing.' IRISH TIMES 'I loved it.' LIZ NUGENT

Please don't hang up. I don't know if you remember. You used to live with me.

You and your mother. Ruby lives with her father in an old farmhouse at the end of a dirt road. He teaches her to hunt, to forage for mushrooms, to gut a fish.

She learns to tiptoe around his temper - and never to ask about her absent mother. Ruby has no idea that, hundreds of miles away, a woman she barely remembers is desperate to answer those same questions. Captivating, tender and deeply moving, Tell Me What I Am is an unforgettable portrait of the indelible bonds of family - and how far we will go for the ones we love.

Paperback
Publication: 6 Jun 2024, Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571358793
Extent: 336 pages