Chloë Ashby

Momentous decisions: Ruth & Pen, by Emilie Pine, reviewed

One day in Dublin two women cross paths – one debating whether to end a relationship, the other hopeful of beginning one

Emilie Pine. [Ruth Connolly] 
issue 30 April 2022

Emilie Pine writes about the big things and the little things: friendship, love, fertility, grief; waking, showering, catching the bus. She did so in her startling collection of essays Notes to Self, and she does it again in this, her equally startling debut novel Ruth & Pen. As Ruth (‘Counsellor.

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