What Might Have Been Me

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At thirty three, Carla Matthew s life is not where it s supposed to be.

When she dropped out of college eleven years ago to stay in New York after a student summer, she imagined she d have books published, a job in NYU, maybe even have started a family of her own. She hadn t thought she d still be working illegally, still be waiting tables, still going to the same bars to see her boyfriend Eddie play in the same gigs. Carla can t quite figure out how she ended up here, where to go next or even who she s supposed to be any more.

When her mother is diagnosed with Alzheimer s disease, Carla has to make a decision to leave New York and return to Dublin. But what about Eddie and her life in New York Will she be able to come back And more importantly, does she still want to

What Might Have Been Me is a novel about love and loss, courage and responsibility to our family, to the people we love, but most of all to ourselves, to become the person only we know we can be.

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Praise for The Other Boy: - :

**** - 'a highly compelling tale ... a hugely gripping plot that takes us from 80s Ireland to contemporary London where the story ... reaches a shocking climax. A real page-turner.' - RTE Guide

Intelligent and tautly written - Irish Independent

'... as the tense drama between the brothers is played out, the lines between truth and lies, good and bad, light and dark become increasingly blurred, culminating in a violent and shocking act.

Cassidy does not provide the reader with any easy answers in this sinister story. The truth is to be found somewhere in the cracks and in-between spaces within each brother's narrative. It is ultimately left up to the reader to make sense of this on their own, to construct our own narrative to explain what has gone on. - Irish Independent

A humdinger of a first novel . . . Cassidy is excellent at the build-up of tension, until the reader can hardly bare to turn the page for fear of what is to come. Rough, raw and telling it like it is . . . - The Tablet

Author Bio

Yvonne was born in 1974 in Dublin. She studied English and Economics in UCD. Yvonne has worked in London, Australia and New York, specialising in the field of marketing communications. She returned to Dublin in 2001 where she currently lives. What Might Have Been Me is her second novel.