Wild Gestures by Lucy Durneen

[image error]I launched Lucy Durneen’sWild Gestureson 11 January at Buck Mulligan’s Irish whiskey bar-bookshop. This was my speech.

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Lucy Durneen’s Wild Gestures is a stunning collection of stories, so full of insight on the unconquerable spaces between people, the missed or never possible opportunities, the mistakes that couldn’t be otherwise, the yearning for things we can’t or shouldn’t have, and bearing the weight of it all – of the reaching and yearning and trying to hold and knowing we can’t.

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