The Quiet Whispers Never Stop

<P><B>AN <I>IRISH EXAMINER </I>BOOK OF THE YEAR</B><br><B>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BUTLER LITERARY AWARD</B><br><B>SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O''BRIEN AWARD</B><br><br><B>''Touching and darkly beautiful'' <I>Irish Sunday Independent</I></B><br><B>''Powerful, uncompromising'' <I>Irish Times</I></B><br><B>''Utterly absorbing, a novel that keeps you guessing right to the end'' Kit de Waal</B><br><br>1982. Northern Ireland. Nuala Malin is tied to a life she doesn''t want by her daughter Sam and baby son PJ. An affair with a seventeen-year-old boy reminds her of a future she hasn''t given up on, but it can''t last, and when her chance to leave comes, she takes it.<br><br>1994. If Sam Malin has a god then it is Kurt Cobain. Music is the only thing that brings her peace. She wants a life away from the North and its troubles, away from her da who can''t talk about the past but seems stuck there, waiting for Sam''s mother to return. A mother Sam barely knew.<br><br>Escape seems out of reach until Sam