This time, Kasey refuses to let the worst moments of her past define her this time, she knows how to protect those she loves at all costs.
But when she notices troubling signs that one of them might be in danger, she is catapulted back to that fateful summer. Now reunited with her friends in Goldie for a wedding, she’s determined to focus on the simple joy of being together again. In 2019, Kasey has returned to her small Southern hometown of Goldie for the first time since high school-and she still hasn’t told even her closest friends the truth of what really happened that summer after graduation, or what made her leave so abruptly without looking back. from falling in love, to finding their dream jobs, to becoming who they were meant to be. In 2004, Rosemarie, Ada, Caroline, and Kasey are in their final days of high school and on the precipice of all the things teenagers look forward to when anything in life seems possible. Taking inspiration from the infamous, empowering song, Goodbye Earl follows four best friends through two unforgettable summers, fifteen years apart. and who she will be.Four women take fate into their own hands in this big-hearted story of friendship, resilience, and revenge on monstrous men, from the award-winning author of Half-Blown Rose. As Cillian does all he can to win her back, Vincent must decide what she wants. In a journey that is both transportive and intimate, Half-Blown Rose traverses Paris, art, travel, liminal spaces, and the messy complexities of relationships and romance, with excerpts from Cillian’s novel, playlists, and journal entries woven throughout. Soon they begin an intense affair, and somewhere between dinners made together, cigarettes smoked in the moonlight, hazy evenings in nightclubs, and long, starry walks along the Seine, Vincent feels herself loosening and blossoming. Now estranged from her husband, Vincent has agreed to see Cillian again at their son’s wedding the following summer, but Loup introduces new complications. But Vincent is also in Paris to escape a painful betrayal: her husband, Cillian, has published a bestselling book divulging secrets about their marriage and his own past, hinting that when he was a teenager, he may have had a child with a young woman back in Dublin-before he moved to California and never returned. At forty-four, she enjoys strolling the streets of Paris and teaching at the modern art museum she has a vibrant group of friends and she’s even caught the eye of a young, charismatic man named Loup. Vincent, having grown up as the privileged daughter of artists, has a lovely life in many ways. An irresistible story of a woman remaking her life after her husband’s betrayal leads to a year of travel, art, and passion in Paris, from the award-winning author of This Close to Okay.
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