First published 2015
In a remote cottage on the rural Irish coast, an unnamed woman carves out an intensely private existence. Her days unfold through meticulously observed moments: preparing food, wandering landscapes, processing past relationships. Each fragment reveals her interior world with startling precision—sometimes a single page, sometimes a longer narrative stretch. As she negotiates solitude and memory, her environment becomes an extension of her consciousness, transforming mundane details into charged emotional terrain. She is simultaneously isolated and hyperaware, tracking the minute sensations that construct her singular reality. Her encounters—with lovers, local animals, domestic objects—become portals into a rich psychological landscape. Neither memoir nor traditional narrative, her account resists simple categorization, instead offering an immersive portrait of consciousness itself. A kaleidoscopic exploration of inner life, rendered with razor-sharp intimacy.
Genres: literary-fiction, contemporary, slice-of-life
Vibes: intimate, lyrical, thought-provoking
Tropes: character-driven, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Ireland
Period: 21st-century
148 pages · Hardcover · The Stinging Fly Press