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With My Lazy Eye

Paperback / ISBN-13: 9781847247827

Price: £9.99

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Lucy’s a misfit. She’s growing up in a large family in a semi-detached house in Dublin, dreaming of being someone else and making her father proud. It’s not looking promising.
He’s an internationally renowned academic, her siblings are bright achievers, but Lucy is lazy, directionless and never quite manages to succeed. Perhaps that’s because she’s not really trying. She hasn’t got the energy to revise for exams, she can’t convince herself to care about coming last and even when she goes to London and finds the perfect job, she is still destined to fail. It seems she’s going nowhere – fast.
But when a family crisis forces Lucy to grow up, she’s going to realise that if she wants a better life, she’ll have to take matters into her own hands. Maybe then her dreams will come true.

Reviews

A page-turner. Kelly's acute observations about adolescence ring true, the reader will laugh…This is a stunning debut - Irish Examiner
Irish Examiner
Julia Kelly's is surely the freshest voice in Irish fiction since the wonderful early novels of Edna O'Brien. This is a future to watch - John Banville
John Banville
This debut novel is chock-full of humour and detailed observations - OK.
OK!Magazine