The Quiet Whispers Never Stop Av Olivia Fitzsimons

<p><b>''Captivating'' Jan Carson</b><br><b>''Dazzling'' Danielle McLaughlin</b><br><b>''Stunning'' Sue Divin</b><br><b>''Compelling'' Stephen Walsh</b><br><b>''A huge achievement'' Niamh Boyce</b><br><br><br>In 1982, Nuala Malin struggles to stay connected, to her husband, to motherhood, to the smallness of her life in the belly of a place that is built on hate and stagnation. Her daughter Sam and baby son PJ keep her tethered to this life she doesn''t want. She finds unexpected refuge with a seventeen-year-old boy, but this relationship is only temporary, a sticking plaster on a festering wound. It cannot last and when her chance to leave Northern Ireland comes, Nuala takes it.<br><br>In 1994, Sam Malin plans escape. She longs for a life outside her dysfunctional family, far away from the North and all its troubles, free from her quiet brooding father Patsy, who never talks about her mother, Nuala; a woman Sam barely knew, who abandoned them twelve years ago. She finds solace in music