Old Romantics

Shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award • Shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards Sunday Independent Newcomer of the Year

Like Dubliners, if Dubliners were "Cat Person" as a feminist mock-epic about a writer's coming of age—and every Dubliner was named Margaret.

A woman pursues the man who cut ahead of her in line. Two nice people report that a child has been left unsupervised at a local beach. Romances, old and new, shift and sour. Following Maggie Armstrong’s intrepid hero, Margaret, through f...