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Caoilinn Hughes

Caoilinn Hughes is an Irish writer whose poetry collection Gathering Evidence won the Irish Times Shine/Strong Award. She is a fellow of the James Merrill Foundation, the Bogliasco Foundation, the Tin House Workshop, and has received a Literature Bursary Award from the Arts Council of Ireland. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Granta, POETRY, Best British Poetry, BBC Radio 3 and elsewhere. She divides her time between the Netherlands and Ireland.

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Title:

The Alternatives

Written by:

Caoilinn Hughes 

Read by:

John Keating; Caoilinn Hughes; Sarah Bolger; Aisling Franciosi; Dominique McElligott; Liam Heslin 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

11 

Duration:

11 hours 2 minutes 

Published:

June 28 2024 

Available Date:

June 28 2024 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038674555 

Genres:

Fiction; Contemporary Fiction; General Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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AUD$ 49.95

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Award winning author
Irish Author

Equal parts hilarious and profound, The Alternatives is a powerful new novel about four gifted Irish sisters, from a major literary voice.

The Flattery sisters were plunged prematurely into adulthood when their parents died in tragic circumstances. Now in their thirties – all single, all with PhDs – they are each attempting to do meaningful work in a rapidly foundering world. The four lead disparate, distanced lives, from classrooms in Connecticut to ritzy catering gigs in London’s Notting Hill, until one day their oldest sister, a geologist haunted by a terrible awareness of the earth’s future, abruptly vanishes from her work and home. Together for the first time in years, the Flatterys descend on the Irish countryside in search of a sister who doesn’t want to be found. Sheltered in a derelict bungalow, they reach into their common past, confronting both old wounds and a desperately uncertain future. Warm, 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.

'A massive talent.'
Anthony Doerr, Pulitzer Prizewinning author of All the Light We Cannot See

'The Alternatives is fizzy, brainy, and brilliant, always at the service of a drama of great emotional power. Caoilinn Hughes is an extraordinarily gifted writer.'
Joseph O'Neill, author of Netherland and The Dog

'The Alternatives unfolds in a prose full of gorgeous surprises and glows with intelligence, compassion, and beauty.'
Hernan Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust

'Intelligent, impassioned, and wholly satisfying.'
Kirkus Reviews, starred review