Each September, thousands of students walk through the doors of University College and Trinity College, Dublin. This year, Olive and Tom will be among them.Eighteen-year-old Olive is fresh from the country, and her eyes are opened wide by the big-city goings on of her new friends. When she starts to be pursued by Tom, the scruffy maverick who's seduced half the girls she's met, she's adamant he's not for her. But when a tragedy befalls her family, it's Tom who proves her best friend - until that is, she discovers his real motivations.Tom has never thought further than the next party, the next girl, the next drink. But now, with his own broken family about to cast him off and his social habits spinning out of control, he seems to have destroyed his relationship with Olive. What started out as a stupid dare metamorphoses into something much more serious.Set against the backdrop of youth on the brink of adulthood, and capturing the contrasts of the haves versus the have-nots, the worldly versus the innocent, Emily Gillmor Murphy's YOU AND I is an assured debut that will transport readers straight to the rollercoaster experience of growing up and falling in love.

Vorwort
Both a coming-of-age love story and a sharp look at changing Dublin, this is a brilliant debut from a talented new voice in Irish contemporary storytelling.

Autorentext

Emily Gillmor Murphy was born in 1990, in County Dublin Ireland. She is currently in her final year studying Arts in University College Dublin, majoring in English and History.

Emily currently lives in Enniskerry, County Wicklow with her two older sisters and her parents. She is also a competitive show jumper, travelling across the country to events with her older sister Lucy.



Klappentext

Country girl Olive Fitzsimmons arrives in Dublin, ready for a new life as a student at University College. But even though she's soon swept up in the big-city goings-on of her new crowd, she can't quite forget the tragedy that is unfolding back home.

Tom O'Connor has never thought further than the next party, the next girl, the next drink. He wants to change, but with his broken family about to cast him off, he's spinning out of control. And then he meets Olive

Titel
You and I
EAN
9781448126330
ISBN
978-1-4481-2633-0
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
21.06.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.39 MB
Anzahl Seiten
352
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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