And to my mother, Betty Murrin – thank you for everything.
About the Author
ALAN MURRIN is an Irish writer based in Berlin. His short story “The Wake” won the 2021 Bournemouth Writing Prize and was shortlisted for short story of the year at the Irish Book Awards. The Coast Road was shortlisted for the PFD Queer Fiction Prize. Murrin is also the recipient of an Irish Arts Council Agility Award and Literature Bursary Award. He is a graduate of the prose fiction master’s program at the University of East Anglia and writes for The Irish Times and the Times Literary Supplement, as well as ArtReview and e-flux.
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Copyright
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Originally published in the United Kingdom in 2024 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
first harpervia edition published in 2024
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Digital Edition JUNE 2024 ISBN: 978-0-06-333653-7
Print ISBN: 978-0-06-333652-0
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Set along a picturesque coastal route, the story follows the journey of a protagonist who sets out on a road trip, only to find themselves entangled in a series of unexpected events.
