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My Coney Island Baby
  • Published: 15 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784708764
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99

My Coney Island Baby

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17 Jan 2019
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15 Apr 2020
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An exquisite, heart-breaking novel about the end of an affair by an new Irish voice

'A poignant, piercing meditation on middle age and the passing of time… will linger with you long after the book is closed' Guardian

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENCORE AWARD 2020*

On a bitterly cold winter’s afternoon, Michael and Caitlin escape their unhappy marriages to keep an illicit rendezvous. Once a month, for the past quarter of a century, Coney Island has been their haven; these precious, hidden hours their only nourishment. But now, amid the howling of an angry snowstorm, the shut-down, out-of-season resort feels like the edge of the world. And their lives, suddenly, are on the brink – with news of serious illness on one side, and a move to the Midwest on the other.
  • Published: 15 April 2020
  • ISBN: 9781784708764
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $27.99
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About the author

Billy O'Callaghan

Billy O’Callaghan is the author of the critically acclaimed novel My Coney Island Baby, which has been translated into eight languages and was shortlisted for the Encore Award 2020. The title story in his short-story collection The Boatman and Other Stories was shortlisted for the Costa Short Story Award. He lives in Douglas, a village on the edge of Cork City.

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