Drogheda-born, London-based author Oisín McKenna's debut novel, Evenings and Weekends, is on shelves now — and it's hotly tipped...
It’s been quite some time since I devoured a book with the same hunger I felt tearing through Oisín McKenna’s debut title,. I swallowed pages whole, at paper-cut inducing speed, and quite literally could not put it down.
Read on for an extract below, and for the love of God, buy this book and read it stretched out underneath the sunshine this summer…There has been a longstanding competition between Maggie and Phil, so palpable and real that it seems frankly absurd that neither of them has ever acknowledged it out loud.
The shopping trolley game was this: one person sat in it, someone else pushed as fast as they could. Maggie and Phil always wanted to be the one to push Kyle.
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