The Rag and Bone Shop by Veronica O'Keane

The Rag and Bone Shop by Veronica O'KeaneA leading psychiatrist shows how the mysteries of the brain are illuminated at the extremes of human experience A twinge of sadness, a rush of love, a knot of loss, a whiff of regret. Memories have the power to move us, often when we least expect it, a sign of the complex neural process that continues in the background of our everyday lives. A process that shapes us: filtering the world around us, informing our behaviour and feeding our imagination.

' SINEAD GLEESON

eloquent and almost unemployable

A terrific novel' - William Boyd

' he asked me

author of THE LANGUAGE OF KINDNESS'

but must report to court on a regular basis - an event that proves maddening

their communities

wine-dark treasury of tales

Born 1982 is the life story of one young woman born at the end of the twentieth century and raises questions about endemic misogyny and institutional oppression that are relevant to us all

infatuation or flirtation - has provoked some of the greatest names in literature to write verse of outstanding beauty

is consumed with jealousy over an ally's choice of lover

Two Irish gangsters in the Spanish port of Algeciras wait for the boat from Tangier