The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually

About the book

AN IMMERSIVE AND HEARTFELT EXPLORATION OF FAMILY AND LOVE

'A beautiful bittersweet story of love, loss and families. Tears were shed!' GRAHAM NORTON

'A moving and powerful novel' JOHN BOYNE

'Human, graceful and healing, a true gift of a novel' SEBASTIAN BARRY

'A beautiful story' SARAH WINMAN

'Lyrical, optimistic and redemptive' CLARE CHAMBERS __________

On an island off the west coast of Ireland, the Moone family are shattered by tragedy.

Murtagh Moone is a potter and devoted husband to Maeve, an actor struggling with her most challenging role yet - being a mother to their four children.

Now Murtagh must hold his family close as we bear witness to their story before that tragic night.

We return to the day Maeve and Murtagh meet, outside Trinity College in Dublin, and watch how one love story gives rise to another. And as the Moone children learn who their parents truly are, we journey onwards with them to a future that none of the Moones could predict . . . Except perhaps Maeve herself.

The Truth Must Dazzle Gradually is a celebration of the complex, flawed and stubbornly optimistic human heart. Longlisted for the Guardian's 'Not The Booker' prize!