Prosperity Drive

‘A wonderful writer’ Hilary Mantel

All of life is laid bare in Prosperity Drive. A woman falls and remembers a moment decades earlier that changed the course of her life. A failed priest teaches children to swim at the YMCA. A teenage girl takes a spanner to the car of the young man who has driven her home. A honeymoon in Venice goes disastrously wrong. A man is reunited with his first love in an airport departure lounge. All of the characters begin their journeys on Prosperity Drive, appear and disappear, bump into each other in chance encounters, and join up again through love, marriage or memory in this mesmerising book.

MARY MORRISSY has published three novels: Mother of Pearl, The Pretender and The Rising of Bella Casey -- and a collection of short stories, A Lazy Eye(1993). She has won a Hennessy Award and a Lannan Literary Foundation Award and currently teaches at University College Cork.