The Beauty of Impossible Things
Rachel Donohue
'Poetic, atmospheric' Daily Mail
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Foresight is not always a gift...
The summer Natasha Rothwell turns fifteen, strange dancing lights appear in the sky above her small town, lights that she interprets as portents of doom.
Natasha leads a sheltered life with her beautiful, bohemian mother in a crumbling house by the sea. As news of the lights spreads, more and more visitors arrive in the town, creating a feverish atmosphere of anticipation and dread. And the arrival of a new lodger, the handsome Mr Bowen, threatens to upset the delicate equilibrium between mother and daughter.
Then Natasha's fears seem to be realized when a local teenager goes missing, and she is called on to help. But her actions over that long, hot summer will have unforeseen and ultimately tragic consequences that will cast a shadow for many years to come...
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About Rachel Donohue
Reviews for The Beauty of Impossible Things
The Times
Poetic, atmospheric
Daily Mail
An elegant, coming-of-age novel that has touches of Françoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse as well as LP Hartley's The Go-Between ... the atmosphere and characters Donohue creates linger long after finishing.
Sunday Independent
Haunting and compelling
Emma Rous
Brims with atmospheric, eerie tension
Irish Independent
Donohue looks to be the latest name to join the ranks of Ireland's proud female thriller-writing tradition.
Irish Independent on Rachel Donhue
Donohue's language is sharp, mature and occasionally quite beautiful. There is a poetic lilt to the prose...
Sunday Business Post
Donohue is a master of clean, sharp prose
Irish Times on Rachel Donohue
Eloquent, lyrical prose ... fascinating and thought-provoking
NB Magazine
Donohue's writing is crisp and frequently elegant ... the novel's moving ending feels earned and real.
Irish Times
Donohue writes with an apparently effortless grace
Big Issue
Donohue's lyrical novel elegantly blends all the elements of uncertainty and puberty into a decidedly strange but satisfying brew... Entrancing
Crime Time