The Quiet Whispers Never Stop
by Olivia Fitzsimons
Description
A story of love, obsession and escape, an uncompromising, lyrical tour-de-force that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in Irish fiction. In Northern Ireland in 1982, Nuala Malin wants nothing more than to escape – from her brooding husband Patsy, from the farm, from the inevitability of hate and stagnation. She begins an intense, passionate sexual relationship with a 17-year-old, Naoise. Then she disappears from all their lives. Twelve years later, Nuala's daughter Sam can't wait to make her own escape, but she needs to finish school first, and she can't get past the loss of her mother. When Sam meets a jagged, magnetic older man, she is drawn to him, he to her. His name is Naoise.
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Contact: Brian Langan brian@storylineagency.com (World, UK & Commonwealth, adaptation);
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Author Biography
Olivia Fitzsimons is from Ballynoe, County Down and now lives in Wicklow. She was an Irish Writer Centre Novel Fair Winner for 2020. In 2019 she was an IWC/Cill Rialaig Professional Writers Residency Recipient. In 2018, she won the Bray Literary Festival Flash Fiction Prize and was selected for Fiction At The Friary New Writer Showcase at Cork International Short Story Festival. She has been placed or shortlisted in many short story competitions including Benedict Kiely, Sunday Business Post/Penguin Short Story Award and Dalkey Creates. Her feature film screenplay The Frequency of Life and short Lesley agus Fionn are being developed by Jim Sheridan’s Hell's Kitchen Ltd. The Quiet Whispers Never Stop is her first novel.
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Storyline Literary Agency
Based in Ireland, Storyline Literary Agency was set up in 2019 by Brian Langan, a former editor at Penguin Random House, with the aim of disovering and nurturing the very best in new and emerging literary talent, and finding the ideal publishers for our clients. Our primary focus is on literary and genre fiction, and narrative non-fiction. Recent publishing deals include Iron Annie by Luke Cassidy (Bloomsbury, September 2021); Line by Niall Bourke (Tramp Press, spring 2021); and Fallen by Mel O'Doherty (Bluemoose Books, June 2021).
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- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusUnpublished
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