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“In The Coming Thing, Martina Evans offers a powerfully realised world—Cork city in the 1980s—and an unforgettable narrator, Imelda, on a journey to England for an abortion. From the strictures of a Republic which denied Irish women bodily autonomy until constitutional change in 2018, Evans creates an Everywoman on the brink of the digital age.” Read more...
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Our most recommended books
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The Aeneid (Robert Fitzgerald translation)
by Virgil -
Staying Alive
by Neil Astley (editor) -
William Wordsworth: The Major Works
by Stephen Gill (editor) -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri -
Paradise Lost
by John Milton -
The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson
