Prosperity Drive

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The gifted Irish writer returns with a stunning book of linked stories 'A wonderful writer' Hilary Mantel All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl takes a spanner to the car of the young man who has driven her home. A honeymoon in Venice goes disastrously wrong. A man is reunited with his first love in an airport departure lounge. All of the characters begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage or memory in this mesmerising book.

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She is a true heir to Chekhov and the great writers Her clear-eyed vision and her deep compassion, along with her lovely sense of the comic and her exceptional literary articulacy, make this an outstanding collection. -- ils N Dhuibhne * Irish Times *
Mary Morrissy is a wonderful writer. These stories are entertaining and deft, so skilfully balanced and interwoven that when you begin to pick out the pattern it is a real moment of delight. -- Hilary Mantel
Morrissy bewitches the reader with an immaculate yet irreverent turn of phrase, her imagination slanted at a rare angle. -- Imogen Lycett-Green * Daily Mail *
Story by story [Morrissy] stitches together a hundred tiny plots, moving backwards and forwards across 60 years, and outwards to Italy, America, Australia and Vietnam Morrissy proves herself a steady observer of the bleakness of everyday life, as well as when bleakness becomes catastrophe. -- Hannah Rosefield * Observer *
One of the best Irish books youll read this year. -- Sara Keating * Sunday Business Post *

Author Bio

Mary Morrissy has published three novels - Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey - and a collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye (1993). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork.