Unnatural

From the Irish bestselling author of Nine Folds Make a Paper Swancomes a short story about modern love, old-fashioned values and a new-born calf.



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While the country gears up for a referendum, a man sits waiting with a ring in his pocket...



He has known his girlfriend since they were children, though they have become quite different adults. He lives in the city, she works on a farm. She's voting YES, he doesn't know what he's doing; what exactly it is he believes.



But he does know that he makes her laugh and that their connection feels natural, most of the time. So surely there's a decent chance she will say YES to him too?



Ruth Gilligan is an Irish novelist and journalist. She has written three previous novels: Forget, which reached number one on the Irish Bestsellers' List when she was 19, making her the youngest person in Ireland ever to have done so, and Somewhere In Between and Can You See Me, both published while she was still at university. She writes and reviews for the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, theTLS and the Guardian.



Review for Nine Folds Make a Paper Swan:



Reminiscent of Téa Obreht, Nicole Krauss and Maggie O'Farrell... Wonderful Source: Colum McCann

Graceful, confident, vivid... I loved this beautifully written novel Source: Joseph O'Connor



A rich and layered story of the complications, the mistakes and the heartbreaks of which a human life is made... I haven't read anything like it Source: Belinda McKeon



Immensely readable and written with great flair Source: Irish Independent

Brimming with concepts and yarns Source: Irish Times

Rich in plot and full of characters that have been neglected by Irish literature