In the Aylward home it is said 'You only get one life, and no woman should spend any part of it being friends with men. The novel is constructed of short chapters that provide a series of vignettes of the dramas of life, a vibrant picture painted of family and community, the tragedies, comedy, birth, love, loss, judgementalism and murderous impulses. All the Aylward women have a deep abiding love for each other, but you could be forgiven for not seeing just how mad they are about each other, you would have to see beyond the abusive and loud foul mouthed rancour and conversations that might be overheard by neighbours and other outsiders. Donal Ryan exquisitely explores an Irish family, four generations of women living together through the years in a small house on an estate in rural Tipperary, outside the town of Nenagh.
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