L'écriture de Doreen Finn explore les profondeurs de l'expérience humaine, examinant les relations complexes et les vies intérieures de ses personnages à travers un style littéraire distinctif. Son œuvre se caractérise par une perspicacité aiguë et un langage poétique qui entraîne les lecteurs au cœur du récit. Finn se consacre à capturer l'essence de la vie et ses vérités inexprimées. Elle crée des histoires qui résonnent avec une profonde honnêteté émotionnelle.
Nine-year-old Megan lives in a redbrick house in Dublin with her mother, a beautiful and lonely artist, and her grandmother; her father's whereabouts are a mystery. When an American family moves in downstairs and Megan's mother begins a tentative affair with the father, everything that Megan is sure of starts to unravel.
What happens when you no longer recognise the person you have become? Eva has managed to spend her twenties successfully hiding from herself in New York. Attempting to write, but really only writing her epitaph, she returns to Ireland to confront the past that has made her what she is. In prose that is hauntingly beautiful and delicate, Doreen Finn explores a truly complex and fascinating character with deft style and unflinching honesty.