Nesting

O'Donnell, Roisín

ISBN 10: 1398528528 / ISBN 13: 9781398528529

Published by Scribner, London, 2025

About this Item

384pp. 8vo. Paper over boards, stamped spine, sprayed text block edges. Book is a British first edition that has a number line starting with 1. The author has signed her name on a special publisher's limitation page, this being #1028 of 1500 numbered copies. Book is unread, unmarked, unclipped, tight, bright and the jacket has an archival protector. Includes a custom book mark and postcard. Gift quality. Author's first novel (after lots of short stories).

Seller Inventory # 0004514

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nesting
• Publisher: Scribner, London
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398528528
• ISBN 13: 9781398528529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First edition. First Printing.
• Dust Jacket Condition: fine
• Signed: Signed
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

An extraordinary and urgent debut by a prize-winning Irish writer, Nesting introduces an unforgettable new voice in fiction.

On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe.

This was meant to be an escape. But with dwindling savings, no job, and her family across the sea, Ciara finds herself adrift, facing a broken housing system and the voice of her own demons. As summer passes and winter closes in, she must navigate raising her children in a hotel room, searching for a new home and dealing with her husband Ryan’s relentless campaign to get her to come back. Because leaving is one thing, but staying away is another.

What will it take for Ciara to rebuild her life? Can she ever truly break away from Ryan’s control – and what will be the cost?

Tense, beautiful, and underpinned by an unassailable love, hope and resilience, this is the story of one woman’s bid to start over.