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  2. By the same author
  3. SUZY SUZY
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  89. About William Wall
  90. An Invitation from the Publisher

Serena is in some sort of institution that cures people who need to be cured. Maybe in America. They have a cure for everything over there, even if you’re not sick. They’re going to need about forty different therapies for Serena, including dinosaur onesies. I asked her Mam if I could write to her and she said the institute was insisting on no outside contact. So that was that.

Holly is doing languages. She is planning an Erasmus already. She’s going to Italy. She has fallen in love with one of the Italian lecturers. She has completely changed her image. She dresses like a bitch fashionista from idk maybe Milan. High boots and tight jeans and blouses. The lecturer likes her idk I think they’re a couple, which is legit not what I expected. The lecturer dresses the same way except she wears skirts. Holly, of course, speaks Italian like an Italian after only five months. I don’t know how she does it. She like absorbs languages.

Tosser is an actual frigging engineer now. He texted me on John Brown’s anniversary. We miss him. And I miss Tony, he’s in London working on the next big thing, which is something the internet has every morning at eight o’clock. And Páraic went too. He’s teaching in Hackney. Idk if they do Science through Irish there, probs not. And it looks like my mam will hold onto the house. We have declared peace, or at least remorse and regrets, and we miss Dad the way you miss a gale of wind after a long calm spell. He was the noise in our lives after all. But I don’t think his tenants miss him, or maybe they do.

And still every night Holly texts me: Best year worst year favourite food? And I text back: 2013 2015 omelette ☺. And Holly replies: Marry me babe. Goodnight sleep tight ☺. Holly and me, still best friends forever.
Idk. Maybe.

About William Wall

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William Wall was born in Cork, Ireland. He is the author of five previous novels, including This is the Country, which was longlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, four collections of poetry and three volumes of short fiction, including The Islands, which won the 2017 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, the first European author to do so. He has received many awards and prizes including the Virginia Faulkner Award, the Patrick Kavanagh Award, the Writers’ Week/Ireland Fund Poetry Prize, and the Seán Ó Faoláin Prize and he has been short-listed for many others including the Irish Book Awards, the Raymond Carver Prize and the Manchester Fiction Prize. His work has been translated into many languages and he translates from Italian. He holds a PhD from the School of English, University College Cork.

An Invitation from the Publisher