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She writes beyond the time we live in. Colum McCann

Struggling to cope with urban life and with life in general Frankie, a twenty-something artist, retreats to the rural bungalow on turbine hill that has been vacant since her grandmothers death three years earlier.

(Paperback)

A misfit man finds a misfit dog. Ray, aged fifty-seven, 'too old for starting over, too young for giving up', and one eye, a vicious little bugger, smaller than expected, a good ratter. Both are accustomed to being alone, unloved, outcast - but they quickly find in each other a strange companionship of sorts.