'Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things it certainly got to the heart of me.' Sunjeev Sahota, author of The Year of the Runaways

The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open and she comes down the path toward him. Vera.

Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new, intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is that Vera isn't telling him

Unfolding in the sea-bright, rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, Montpelier Parade is a beautiful, cinematic novel about desire, longing, grief, hope and the things that remain unspoken. It is about how deeply we can connect with one another, and the choices we must also make alone.

Vera is beautiful and unknowable. Sunny is young and hungry for the world. Their connection changes everything. Unfolding in the rain-soaked Dublin of early spring, this is a cinematic debut novel about desire, longing, grief and hope, ideal for fans of Colm Tóibíns BROOKYLN and Ian McEwans ON CHESIL BEACH.

Geary, KarlKarl Geary was born in Dublin, and moved to New York City at age sixteen. He has worked as a script writer (Coney Island Baby), and an actor (Michael Almereyda's Hamlet, and Ken Loach's Jimmy's Hall), and has adapted and directed Dorothy Parker's 'You Were Perfectly Fine' for the screen. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and daughter.