Mouthing

Name: Mouthing
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af Mouthing af Orla Mackey

The bestselling Irish debut novel – a multigenerational portrait of small-town life bursting with caustic wit – for fans of Jon McGregor, Elizabeth Strout and Paul Murray‘Engrossing, funny, delightfully wicked’ Irish Times‘A novel for anyone who ever wondered what the neighbours are really up to behind closed doors’ Jan Carson, author of The RapturesBallyrowan is a sleepy corner of rural Ireland where nothing ever happens. Where everyone knows everyone else's business, and everyone has an opinion on it. Where family feuds simmer and intensify across the generations. Where young and old delight in dragging each other down like crabs in a barrel. Following the fortunes of this small community from the mid-20th century to the early 21st, Mouthing is a bittersweet love letter to the pleasures (and frustrations) of village life. ‘Full of disgrace, inherited trauma and family secrets. It will make you laugh - because if you didn't, you'd surely cry’ Aingeala Flannery Welcome to Ballyrowan. This sleepy corner of Ireland may seem tranquil but scratch the surface and you''ll find a hotbed of gossip and intrigue - endless material for mouthing - and a town full of people only too happy to oblige in spreading the bad news.Narrated by several generations of villagers, Mouthing traces the misadventures of one small community from the mid-20th century to the early 21st in a series of highly confessional, darkly humorous, sharply observed monologues. These are people who delight in twisting the knife, perfecting the art of schadenfreude over many decades. and, it becomes clear, none of them are entirely reliable witnesses. As each one tells their version of events, revealing contradictory versions of ''the truth'', we see how feuds are passed down through the generations, how families are estranged or reunited and fortunes made or lost, how strict social expectations can shift and loosen over time (and how some things remain stubbornly unchanged).Mouthing is an acerbic, unsentimental love letter to rural Ireland, where everyone knows everyone else''s business and everyone has an opinion on it - where ''community'' is both a lifeboat and a life sentence.