Fallen
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241964729
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $37.00
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Fallen

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A gripping story of love, loss and conflicting loyalties in a time of violence

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 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.

With its magnificent portrait of a young woman coming of age amidst violence and loss, Lia Mills has written a novel that can stand alongside Colm Tóibín's Brooklyn, Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong and Louisa Young's My Dear, I Wanted to Tell You.
  • Published: 1 March 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241964729
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $37.00
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Praise for Fallen

Tremendously passionate, vivid and 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 and, above all, the imperative to follow orders can blight people's lives

Irish Mail on Sunday

Powerful ... Katie is a brilliantly realised heroine ... humane and compelling

Sunday Business Post

[An] intelligent, beautifully written tale of ordinary people in troubled times

Sunday Independent