Exile

Leaving home was hard. Returning is impossible.

Endless nights out in Belfast pass by for Fiadh and her friends in an exhilarating blur of cheap vodka and crowded dancefloors as they celebrate the end of exams and start of university. But when Fiadh wakes up from a night she doesn’t remember… everything changes. Soon, everyone knows what happened to her; it is impossible to stop the rumours from spreading and the gossip from spiralling out of control. Helpless, she begins to freefall.

Thrown into university life at Liverpool, assignment deadlines are missed, classes are skipped, friends’ messages are ignored. Lost between a strange new city and a place that no longer feels like home, will one night cost her everything?

Taut and tender, Exile is a devastating exploration of the repercussions of one half-remembered night from a major new voice in Northern Irish fiction.