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The alternatives / Caoilinn Hughes.

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Shelf Location	Collection	Volume Ref.	Branch	Status	Due Date
F HUGH	Adult Fiction		Adult Lending	. On Loan .	5 Jun 2024

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Field name	Details
ISBN	9780861547807 (paperback)
Classification	F HUGH
Personal Name	Hughes, Caoilinn, 1985-
Title	The alternatives / Caoilinn Hughes.
Production & Copyright Details	London : Oneworld Publications, 2024.
Production & Copyright Details	©2024
Physical Description	342 pages ; 24 cm
Content type	text
Summary Note	Olwen was plunged prematurely into adulthood when her parents died in tragic circumstances. She and her three younger sisters each single, each with a PhD are now in their thirties and leading disparate, distanced lives. Until one day Olwen, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the Earth's future, abruptly vanishes from her home. Together for the first time in years, her three siblings descend on the Irish countryside in search of a sister who doesn't actually want to be found. In an isolated rural bungalow they reach into their uncommon past, confronting both old wounds and a desperately uncertain future. Fiercely witty and unexpectedly hopeful, The Alternatives is an unforgettable portrait of a family perched on our collective precipice, told by one of Ireland's most gifted storytellers.
Subject - Topical Term	Parents -- Death -- Fiction
	Sisters -- Fiction
	Women geologists -- Fiction
	Missing persons -- Fiction
	Reunions -- Fiction
Subject - Geographic Name	Ireland -- Fiction
Subject - Genre	Domestic fiction