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Soldier Sailor: A Novel

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Kilroy delivers a stark exploration of early motherhood — the responsibilities, the emotional bonds and how becoming a mom changes everything. Tethering between emotional bliss and suppressed resentment, this is a visceral dive that’s moving, funny and eye-opening.

FINALIST for the WOMEN’S PRIZE for FICTION * One of Vogue’s Best Books of the Year

Award-winning author Claire Kilroy’s “lyrical and incisive” (The New York Times Book Review) novel that reads with the pace of a thriller and is filled with astute and witty observations of life with a young child.

Soldier Sailor takes readers deep inside the early days of motherhood. Exploring the clash of fierce love with a seismic shift in identity, Claire Kilroy conjures the raw, tumultuous emotions of a n...

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