It is late September in 2001 and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing Cora Bradys father is there the poster she made taped to columns and bridges Her mother died long ago and now orphaned on the cusp of adulthood Cora is adrift and alone Soon a letter will arrive with the offer of a new life far out on the ragged edge of Ireland in the town where her parents were young an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a longforgotten promise There the story of Coras family is hidden and in her presence will begin to unspoolAn essential immersive debut from an astonishing new voice Confessions traces the arc of three generations of women as they experience in their own time the irresistible gravity of the past its love and tragedy its mystery and redemption and in all things intended and accidental the beauty and terrible shade of the things we do
