Dimensions
129 x 197 x 18mm
'First Time' introduced a new and for some commentators disturbing voice in contemporary Irish writing. Lara Harte opened the lid on schoolgirl angst nineties-style and portrayed a Dublin childhood, complete with illicit drinking and teenage sex, in a prose that was dark and utterly contemporary. In her second novel she returns to the streetwise young Dubliners whose language is so much her own.
Merle Murphy hero-worships her older sister Corinne, a college graduate making it in London and coming home only on visits. When Corinne attempts suicide, she throws Merle into confusion and into a search for the secrets that have blighted her sister's life. This is the story of four young lives, lived against a backdrop of modern Dublin, of pubs and nightclubs and backstreets. It's also the story of four childhoods.
