Rosemary Hennigan

Jan 24, 2024 | irishtimes.com | Rosemary Hennigan

Novels often have inauspicious beginnings. A spark lights the mind: a question, a character, an image, a song, a pattern of shadow on a wall. For me, it began in tears when, in the summer of 2016, I left my job, my family, and my fiancé to move to a city I had never been to before. Homesick already, I cried so much on the plane that I’m quite sure fellow passengers were looking about for the imagined baby causing such a fuss. Philadelphia, my destination, existed only dimly in my mind.

Sep 25, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Alice Pung |Rosemary Hennigan |Celina Baljeet Basra

In the nuanced latest from Australian writer Pung (Laurinda), a teen mother-to-be reflects on her ill-fated pursuit of freedom in 1980s Melbourne. Karuna Kelly, 16, lives with her unnamed mother and carries on a clandestine relationship with Ray, a slightly older boy who’s also her homework tutor, until she gets pregnant by him.

Sep 22, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Rosemary Hennigan |Celina Baljeet Basra

Elizabeth Mavor. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-946022-68-4This vibrant and resonant story of love and sickness from Mavor (1927–2013) was shortlisted for the Booker when it was first published in 1973. Hero Kinoull, a bookseller and admirer of cultural artifacts (“I have the Great Sickness... that love affair, sexual almost, with the lost past”) is content to be the mistress of Hugh Shafto, an upper-crust art historian of the rococo.

Sep 21, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Rosemary Hennigan |Celina Baljeet Basra

Millie Bobby Brown, with Kathleen McGun. Morrow, $28.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-333577-6Stranger Things star Brown sets her emotionally layered debut in 1942 East London, where 18-year-old protagonist Nellie works as an assistant to the mayor of Bethnal Green and struggles to keep her tight-knit family and friends safe during nighttime bombing raids by the Nazis.

Sep 9, 2023 | kirkusreviews.com | Rosemary Hennigan |Susan Mallery

The phrase “tour de force” could have been invented for this audacious novel. Four men who meet as college roommates move to New York and spend the next three decades gaining renown in their professions—as an architect, painter, actor and lawyer—and struggling with demons in their intertwined personal lives.