We Are Not In the World
Published
April 2020
Publishers
UK
Doubleday
Denmark
Jensen & Dalgaard
France
Sabine Wespieser Editeur
Heartbroken after a long, painful love affair, a man drives a haulage lorry from England to France. Travelling with him is a secret passenger - his daughter. Twenty-something, unkempt, off the rails.
With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred.
As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations.
Praise for Conor O’Callaghan:
As fine as it is frightening.
John Banville
An original story, brilliantly told. . . extraordinary, low-key and pitch-perfect.
Irish Times
This one will stay with you like your shadow, as hard to shake off and as impossible to pin down.
Guardian
Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying.
Donal Ryan
With a week on the road together, father and daughter must restore themselves and each other, and repair a relationship at once fiercely loving and deeply scarred.
As they journey south, down the motorways, through the service stations, a devastating picture reveals itself: a story of grief, of shame, and of love in all its complex, dark and glorious manifestations.
Praise for Conor O’Callaghan:
As fine as it is frightening.
John Banville
An original story, brilliantly told. . . extraordinary, low-key and pitch-perfect.
Irish Times
This one will stay with you like your shadow, as hard to shake off and as impossible to pin down.
Guardian
Strange, beautiful and quietly terrifying.
Donal Ryan
