by Catherine Dunne · Jonathon Cape · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780224044264
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«In the Beginning» is the contemporary fiction novel by Catherine Dunne, published by Jonathan Cape in paperback (288 pages, in English).
Set in Dublin, it tells how Rose Holden copes with her husband's abandonment after twenty years of marriage and three children: he has left her for another woman. The novel recalls how the couple reached that situation and follows Rose as she tries to rebuild her life as a single mother.
Originally published in 1997.
For readers of contemporary and literary fiction, interested in stories of family, marriage and breakdown.
Catherine Dunne is an Irish writer. She was born in Dublin and studied English and Spanish at Trinity College, Dublin, before becoming a teacher. In 2013, she was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction for The Things We Know Now, which was published in Italy as Quel che ora sappiamo. Dunne received the Irish PEN Award for Literature in 2018.
