Mouthing av Orla Mackey

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<p><b>Sharp-eyed and sharp-tongued, a multigenerational portrait of small-town life in Ireland from a refreshing new talent in literary fiction</b><br><br>''A bittersweet love letter to small-town Irish life over several generations, in the vein of Elizabeth Strout¿s <i>Olive Kitteridge'' Irish Times</i>, ''Fiction to look out for in 2024''<br><br><b>Welcome to Ballyrowan. <br></b><br>This sleepy corner of rural Ireland may seem tranquil, but scratch the surface and you''ll find a hotbed of gossip and intrigue - endless material for mouthing - and a town full of people only too happy to oblige in spreading the bad news.<br><br>Narrated by several generations of villagers, <i>Mouthing </i>traces the fortunes of one small community from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, in a series of highly confessional and darkly hilarious monologues. The good people of Ballyrowan delight in twisting the knife, in tormenting one another, in perfecting the art of schadenfreude. And, it becomes cle