Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Following her bestselling Sunburn, Chloe Michelle Howarth's second novel is a poignant and beautiful meditation on life lived under the weight of secrets in 1960s Ireland. She popped in to tell us more and to share three books that have inspired her writing.
Heap Earth Upon It (SIGNED): waterstones.com/book/heap-earth-upon-it/chloe-michelle-howarth/2928377351687
Venus Fly Trap: waterstones.com/book/venus-fly-trap/emma-medrano/9780241703588
So Late In The Day: waterstones.com/book/so-late-in-the-day/claire-keegan/9780571398041
Play It As It Lays: waterstones.com/book/play-it-as-it-lays/joan-didion/9780007414987

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