This Is How It Ends

Kathleen MacMahon's prose could not appear more effortless or beautiful . . . The twist in this tale is utterly unexpected and satisfyingly unpredictable . . . A bittersweet, engaging novel that will no doubt become a book-club darling

An exceptional novel . . . It is truly a story for our time. This is How it Ends signals the belated arrival of a new Irish commercial writer with an extraordinary gift and a voice that is entirely her own

The beginning of bank protests, alongside the American election and how crucial it seemed, send a tremor through the narrative

When you have long forgotten many other fictional lovers, there is something about Addie and Bruno, their past and their world, that will not go away

A tender love story. A book about love, family, children and that glorious sense of being alive