Published in 2022
232 pages
Sophie White is a novelist, essayist and podcaster from Dublin. She is the author of seven books and she is currently the Arts Council Writer in Residence in DCU. Her fifth book, the bestselling memoir Corpsing (2021), was shortlisted for an Irish Book Award and the Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction. Where I End is her sixth book and won the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel.
What is this book about?
My mother.
At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her.
Through our thin shared wall, I can hear the makings of my mother gurgle through her body just like the water in the walls of the house…
Teenage Aoileann has never left the island. Her silent, bed-bound mother is a wreckage, the survivor of a private disaster no one will speak about.
Aoileann desperately wants a family, and when Sarah and her three young children move to the island, Aoileann finds a focus for her relentless love.
A horror story about being bound by the blood knot of family.
