Fallen by Lia Mills
- a remarkable love story amidst the ruins of the First World War & the Easter Rising. SELECTED AS THE 2016 `ONE CITY ONE BOOK` TITLE FOR BOTH DUBLIN & BELFAST Spring, 1915. Katie Crilly gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin brother, Liam, has been killed on the Western Front. A year later, when her home city of Dublin is suddenly engulfed by the violence of the Easter Rising, Katie finds herself torn by conflicting emotions & loyalties. Taking refuge in the home of a friend, she meets Hubie Wilson, a friend of Liam`s from the Front. There unfolds a remarkable encounter between two young people, both wounded & both trying to imagine a new life. ` Lia Mills writes superbly about the human heart. ” This is an historical story with an urgency that is completely modern: Fallen is shot through with the pleasure & the difficulty of being alive”. (Anne Enright). ”A hugely evocative & skilful novel”. (Kevin Barry). ” Tremendously passionate, vivid & humane.. . Mills has an exquisite eye for the telling image”. (Irish Independent). ” Absorbing.. . Mills is a fine storyteller”. (Sunday Times). ” Vivid.. .a careful study of how grief, oppression, violence &, above all, the imperative to follow orders can blight people`s lives”. (Irish Mail on Sunday). ” Powerful.. . Katie is a brilliantly realised heroine.. .humane & compelling”. (Sunday Business Post). ”[ An] intelligent, beautifully written tale of ordinary people in troubled times”. (Sunday Independent).