He Is Mine and I Have No Other
- 2 May 2019
- 9781786892621
- £8.99
- 240 pp
- 129×198mm
- 7 Jun 2018
- 9781786892614
- £7.19
- 204 pp
In a few words
A dark and intense debut about the overwhelming nature of first love from a brilliant new voice in Irish fiction
In a few words
A dark and intense debut about the overwhelming nature of first love from a brilliant new voice in Irish fiction
My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon by the end. He Is Mine and I Have No Other vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life, I could positively feel the damp mistiness of it on my skin. Eerie, tender and wonderful
Sophie Mackintosh, Author Of The Water Cure
Powerful and searing
My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon by the end. He Is Mine and I Have No Other vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life, I could positively feel the damp mistiness of it on my skin. Eerie, tender and wonderful
Sophie Mackintosh, Author Of The Water Cure
Powerful and searing
More about
the book
‘My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon. He Is Mine and I Have No Other vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life. Eerie, tender and wonderful’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure
Shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award
In 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani’s house. Quiet and strange, Leon is haunted by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep. As Lani falls deeper and deeper in love with him, old wounds begin to reopen and start to change the shape of their lives forever.
More about
the book
‘My heart broke a little bit for Lani and Leon. He Is Mine and I Have No Other vividly calls up the atmosphere of small-town life. Eerie, tender and wonderful’ Sophie Mackintosh, author of The Water Cure
Shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award
In 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani’s house. Quiet and strange, Leon is haunted by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep. As Lani falls deeper and deeper in love with him, old wounds begin to reopen and start to change the shape of their lives forever.
I adored He is Mine and I Have No Other . . . Amazing, heartbreaking, brilliantly done
Donal Ryan, Author Of The Spinning Heart And All We Shall Know
A tender portrait of adolescence in all its rawness and sensitivity . . . This is both a love story and, in a sense, a ghost story. It is a small, self-contained thing, spare and unembellished in its prose style and . . . This extreme lightness of touch gives He Is Mine and I Have No Other a certain elegiac grace
He Is Mine And I Have No Other is a book of secrets, and it burns with the sadness and starkness particular to lives forced into secrecy and silence. And yet there is, too, in this story a lucid and beautiful happiness, fragile though it may be; the happiness of being young, and in love, and of finding that love returned. Rebecca O’Connor captures vividly the small triumphs and catastrophes of being a teenage girl in rural Ireland, but in the further darkness to which she reaches is a truth for all generations
Belinda Mckeon, Author Of Solace And Tender
Captures, with uncanny precision, the sheer ferociousness of teenage desire . . . An evocative, atmospheric and thought-provoking read
I adored He is Mine and I Have No Other . . . Amazing, heartbreaking, brilliantly done
Donal Ryan, Author Of The Spinning Heart And All We Shall Know
A tender portrait of adolescence in all its rawness and sensitivity . . . This is both a love story and, in a sense, a ghost story. It is a small, self-contained thing, spare and unembellished in its prose style and . . . This extreme lightness of touch gives He Is Mine and I Have No Other a certain elegiac grace
He Is Mine And I Have No Other is a book of secrets, and it burns with the sadness and starkness particular to lives forced into secrecy and silence. And yet there is, too, in this story a lucid and beautiful happiness, fragile though it may be; the happiness of being young, and in love, and of finding that love returned. Rebecca O’Connor captures vividly the small triumphs and catastrophes of being a teenage girl in rural Ireland, but in the further darkness to which she reaches is a truth for all generations
Belinda Mckeon, Author Of Solace And Tender
Captures, with uncanny precision, the sheer ferociousness of teenage desire . . . An evocative, atmospheric and thought-provoking read
