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A dark and intense debut about the overwhelming nature of first love from a brilliant new voice in Irish fiction

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Shortlisted for the Kate O´Brien Award

´Powerful and searing´ Sunday Times

In 1990s small-town Ireland, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani´s house. Quiet and strange, Leon is haunted by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep. As Lani falls deeper and deeper in love with him, old wounds begin to reopen and start to change the shape of their lives forever.

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Powerful and searing Sunday Times

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O´Connor, Rebecca

Rebecca O´Connor´s first collection of poetry We´ll Sing Blackbird was shortlisted for the Shine/Strong Award. Her writing has appeared in the Guardian, the Spectator, Poetry Review and elsewhere. She was a writer in residence at the Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism and is a recipient of a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. She is co-founder and publisher of The Moth magazine. She lives in County Cavan, Ireland. He Is Mine and I Have No Other is her first novel.

@RebeccaMoth themothmagazine.com

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