Lead Review

• Book: Where Have You Been?
• Location: Dublin, London, New York City (NYC)
• Author: Joseph O'Connor

“The seven short stories and one titular novella in this collection are studies of pained love, bereavement, mental disturbance, suicide, economic hardship and thwarted ambition. But this is not a bleak book, and the final novella, despite its grim themes of loss and mental illness, ends in wistful harmony. There is a gentleness and a fellow feeling extended to these bruised lives of quiet despair” (Ronan McDonald Times Literary Supplement )

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