Lia Mills

Spring 1915, Dublin. Katie Crilly - a young woman trying to find her place in a restrictive society - gets the news she dreaded: her beloved twin brother, Liam, has been killed on the Western Front. A year later, when Dublin is suddenly engulfed by the violence of the Easter Rising, Katie finds herself torn between her loyalty to the cause her brother died for, her instinctive Irish patriotism, and her love for her city and its people. Taking refuge in the home of friends, she meets Hubie Wilson, a comrade of Liam's from the Front. There unfolds a remarkable encounter between two young people, both wounded and both trying to imagine a new life. As the world Katie knows is turned upside down by insurrection, previously unimaginable things suddenly seem possible. In Fallen, Lia Mills has produced a magnificent and enduring portrait of a young woman coming of age amidst violence and loss. '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 and the difficulty of being alive.' Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize 'This is so elegantly done: the past accumulates in careful detail, then suddenly we're gripped and held, we're there. A hugely evocative and skilful novel.' Kevin Barry, winner of the Impac Prize

Fallen

In early 2006, Lia Mills went to the dentist, worried about a painful lump in her cheek. Smile is her acco unt of what happened next. Based on the journals she kept even when she was feeling her worst, it is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand illness and recovery, fear and hope and love.

In Your Face

On the eve of their return to Dublin, Dermot and Ray's daughter Hannah disappears. In the hours that follow, Ray tries to figure out how she ended up with a life that only makes sense now that it's all being taken away from her - and she wonders how it will be worth living at all if they can't find Hannah.

Nothing Simple

Another Alice has all the force and inevitability of a cataclysm. It is the story of a poisoned childhood, a contamination that threatens to spread through generations. Alice is a photographer, struggling to keep her head above water. She has arranged her life like one of her photographs: careful, ordered, stark. The small figure in the foreground is her daughter, Holly. But under the surface, things are not nearly as smooth as Alice likes to think they are. She is haunted by a dream from her childhood that threatens to rise up and engulf her, destroying both Holly and herself. Ultimately she realises that she must enter the dream and learn to navigate its dangerous waters if there is to be any hope of survival for either of them.

Another Alice

In early 2006, Lia Mills went to the dentist, worried about a painful lump in her cheek. In Your Face is her account of what happened next. Based on the journals she kept even when she was feeling her worst, it is a book that should be read by anyone who wants to understand illness and recovery, fear and hope and love.

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