Nesting

De: Roisin O'Donnell

Narrado por: Louisa Harland

From an unforgettable new voice in Irish fiction, a heart-pounding, life-affirming story about one woman trying to leave her marriage and start over. For fans of Claire Keegan and Emma Donoghue.

On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change her life. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe.

It was meant to be an escape. But with dwindling savings, no job, and her family across the sea, Ciara finds herself adrift, facing a broken housing system and the voice of her own demons. As summer passes and winter closes in, she must navigate raising her children in a hotel room, searching for a new home and dealing with her husband Ryan's relentless campaign to get her to come back.

Because leaving is one thing, but staying away is another.

Tense, beautiful and gut-wrenching, Nesting is an unforgettable story of motherhood, underpinned by love, hope and resilience.

©2025 Roisin O'Donnell (P)2025 Simon & Schuster Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

"Nesting is a powerful novel. Brand new, urgent, and hugely satisfying.' (Roddy Doyle, author of The Women Behind the Door)

'A gorgeous, maddening, thrilling and compassionate book. Roisín O’Donnell so expertly captures the dull thud of dread and the frailty of hope. Nesting shows us that the quietest voice in the room can also be the most powerful.' (Sheila Armstrong, author of Falling Animals)

"Roisín O’Donnell tackles the unsettling cruelties and manipulations of coercive control with insight and emotional complexity. The voice is authentic, vivid and important. The final dedication to ‘anyone trapped in a place that does not feel like home’ says everything. Emotionally charged, psychologically nuanced and full of compassion and possibility, I read with my heart in my mouth." (Una Mannion, author of Tell Me What I Am)

Wonderful narrator

This isn’t an easy book, it’s subject matter at times being difficult to face, particularly if it is something you have experienced in your own life. That said, it’s exceptionally well written and highlights how difficult it can be to extricate oneself from a situation when there are dependents the consider and financial independence isn’t a given, when systems are complicated to navigate and hurdles are plenty.

Throughout it all there are small acts of kindness, friendship and darker moments of tension. It’s a great book and I recommend it highly.

The narration too is wonderful.