As You Were
Categories: Literature & Fiction
As You Were is the 2020 debut novel by the Irish poet Elaine Feeney, winner of the Kate O'Brien Award and shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, published in North America by Biblioasis. Sinéad Hynes, a tough, funny young property developer, is hiding a cancer diagnosis from everyone, including her husband. In a failing Irish hospital ward she meets Margaret Rose, running her chaotic family from her phone, and Jane, who shares a secret tied to Ireland's history of institutional abuse of women, and the three women find connection.
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- Margaret Atwood: “AS YOU WERE, Elaine Feeney. I read this in one gulp! FunnySadCuttingBadHistoryElatingLyrical (new word).”