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Book SynopsisImelda thinks she's killed her mother by wishing she was dead. Haunted, she doesn't want to wish the same fate on Justin, her twice-widowed father, owner of McConnell's bar and shop. When Imelda's two sisters, disapprove of Justin's fiance, Clodagh, Justin butters up naive Imelda and elevates her to the position of temporary favourite.
Trade Review'She shows an impressive command of what feels like the ideal narrative medium: individual moments and drive of narrative in perfect coordination, language alive and kicking.' - Christopher Reid 'A drama in anti-prosody, an interior female poetry of Cork life; here the the world turns upon a pub, a petrol pump and an impossible love... a world is transfixed by personal drama, by epiphanies in bars and Icebergs, Aztecs and Bloody Marys creating a kind of alcoholic, consumerist birdlife that sings above the human drama. Evans's imagination is a unique one, darting, flitting, resonating with personal and poetic voices. As a poet she is one of a kind and brilliant.' - Thomas McCarthy
