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Nesting

By: Roisin O'Donnell
Narrated by: Louisa Harland
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 Longlisted for the 2025 Women’s Prize for Fiction

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.

‘Contains all the twists and turns of a classic thriller … Immersive and emotional’ New York Times
‘An escape story from Jodi Picoult territory, but with a lot more bite.’ The Age
‘Turns the idea of the domestic novel inside out … Not just riveting and deeply humane but – in an understated, ‘domestic’ way – radical, too.’ Observer

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 Editors Select Family Life Genre Fiction World Literature Marriage Heartfelt Inspiring

Critic reviews

‘Paced like a thriller, Nesting is a deep, beautiful, hopeful meditation on trauma, healing and love.’ (Jessica Stanley, author of Consider Yourself Kissed)
‘As if we needed further proof of Ireland’s literary supremacy, along comes this absolutely stunning debut. A masterclass in emotivity and artful detail, O’Donnell steers us back and forth to the brink, as our heroine navigates her devastating and all too common reality. Deeply invested, Ciara’s wins become our wins, her losses ours too. I was on tenterhooks the whole time and enjoyed every second of it.’ (Nadine J. Cohen, author of Everyone and Everything)
'Nesting is a powerful novel. Brand new, urgent, and hugely satisfying.' (Roddy Doyle, author of The Women Behind the Door)
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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.

Wonderful narrator

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