13 must-read irish literature books like Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth by Niamh Mulvey

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Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv…

If you liked the irish literature plot in Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth by Niamh Mulvey , here is a list of 13 books like this:

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1. So Late in the Day

By: Claire Keegan

4.00

Format: 47 pages, Hardcover

After an uneventful Friday at the Dublin office, Cathal faces into the long weekend and takes the b… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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2. Blue Sisters

By: Coco Mellors

4.21

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister's death… read more

Similar categories in Coco Mellors's Blue Sisters book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"A sister is not a friend. Who can explain the urge to take a relationship as primal and complex as a sibling and reduce it to something as replaceable, as banal as a friend? Yet this status is used a…"

-Coco Mellors, Blue Sisters

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3. Watching Women & Girls

By: Danielle Pender

3.69

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

“Every aspect of her body or personality was up for inspection: too big, too small, too available, … read more

Similar categories in Danielle Pender's Watching Women & Girls book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It's very boring to call people crazy because they don't do what you tell them to"

-Danielle Pender, Watching Women & Girls

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4. Soldier Sailor

By: Claire Kilroy

4.10

Format: 256 pages, ebook

Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more

Similar categories in Claire Kilroy's Soldier Sailor book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"

-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor

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5. I'm a Fan

By: Sheena Patel

3.32

Format: 207 pages, None

In I'm A Fan, a single speaker uses the story of their experience in a seemingly unequal, unfaithfu… read more

Similar categories in Sheena Patel's I'm a Fan book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • audiobook
"It is toxic. I am familiar"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"Happiness or safety. Or isn't that the same thing?"

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"I never came with him. I never felt safe enough to."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

"The world is made for couples. Even the unhappy ones."

-Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

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6. Ordinary Human Failings

By: Megan Nolan

3.78

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

When a 10-year-old child is suspected of a violent crime, her family must face the truth about thei… read more

Similar categories in Megan Nolan's Ordinary Human Failings book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She loved the feeling of doing something on her own, and doing it in a routine. It felt thrillingly adult and affirmed her most cherished hope, the hope that she might have an actual inner life of su…"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

"He had the sort of bland, agreeable, rosy face which could disappear into whatever context he wished it to. He was blond but not provocatively so. The naturally dull Kent accent could be clipped and …"

-Megan Nolan, Ordinary Human Failings

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7. The Orange and Other Poems

By: Wendy Cope

4.19

Format: 53 pages, Kindle Edition

My heart has made its mind up And I'm afraid it's you. The Orange and Other Poems provides the … read more

Similar categories in Wendy Cope's The Orange and Other Poems book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • romance
  • short stories
  • adult
  • contemporary
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8. Evenings and Weekends

By: Oisín McKenna

3.96

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Sally Rooney and Torrey Peters, a taut and profoundly moving debut that follows a cast … read more

Similar categories in Oisín McKenna's Evenings and Weekends book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • audiobook
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9. Breakdown

By: Cathy Sweeney

3.81

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

One winter morning, in contemporary Dublin, a middle-class woman wakes up next to her husband in he… read more

Similar categories in Cathy Sweeney's Breakdown book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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10. Service

By: Sarah Gilmartin

4.24

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

The waitress. The chef. The chef’s wife. Three different stories, but which one contains the truth?… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Gilmartin's Service book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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11. The Happy Couple

By: Naoise Dolan

3.38

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends… read more

Similar categories in Naoise Dolan's The Happy Couple book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
"She'd learned by that point that she couldn't fix people. All she needed to know, really, in any human transaction, was wether it was right for her; wether it fit. That was why she'd dumped Luke when…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

"Celine believed things for exactly as long as she wanted to. Being smart, being logical, didn't help her. It just enabled her baroque self-deceit. Phoebe took the simpler route of putting no consider…"

-Naoise Dolan, The Happy Couple

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12. The Forester's Daughter

By: Claire Keegan

4.07

Format: 68 pages, Paperback

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at… read more

Similar categories in Claire Keegan's The Forester's Daughter book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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13. Hagstone

By: Sinéad Gleeson

3.63

Format: 307 pages, Kindle Edition

The sea is steady for now. The land readies itself. What can be done with the woman on the cliff? … read more

Similar categories in Sinéad Gleeson's Hagstone book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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14. The Amusements

By: Aingeala Flannery

3.52

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In the seaside town of Tramore, County Waterford, visitors arrive in waves with the tourist season,… read more

Similar categories in Aingeala Flannery's The Amusements book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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15. Barcelona

By: Mary Costello

3.58

Format: 193 pages, Kindle Edition

In Barcelona, we meet a cast of characters who live turbulent inner lives. In a Spanish hotel room … read more

Similar categories in Mary Costello's Barcelona book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • short stories
  • irish literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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16. Bodies

By: Christine Anne Foley

3.81

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

You were everything I ever wanted. Johnny was my first. I was seventeen and I was only brave enough… read more

Similar categories in Christine Anne Foley's Bodies book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • romance
  • ireland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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17. Openings

By: Lucy Caldwell

4.00

Format: 214 pages, Kindle Edition

'One of the finest short-storywriters at work today. These stories are honest, finely nuanced and i… read more

Similar categories in Lucy Caldwell's Openings book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • literary fiction
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • ireland
  • irish literature
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18. Free Therapy

By: Rebecca Ivory

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

A debut collection that heralds the arrival of a fresh and exciting new literary voiceFree Therapy … read more

Similar categories in Rebecca Ivory's Free Therapy book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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19. Lives Not Lived

By: Monika Bhatti

4.18

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

The only good thing about pain is that it connects. And “Lives not Lived” is a story about the same… read more

Similar categories in Monika Bhatti's Lives Not Lived book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • fiction
  • contemporary
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20. Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

By: Niamh Mulvey

3.46

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Hearts and Bones is a book about relationships. It explores what love does to us, and how we surviv… read more

Similar categories in Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • romance
  • literary fiction
  • collections
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • adult
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • audiobook
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21. Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows

By: Sophie White

4.11

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

Nora Ephron meets Bram Stoker in Sophie White's vivid and ambitious literary non-fiction collection… read more

Similar categories in Sophie White's Corpsing: My Body and Other Horror Shows book and Niamh Mulvey's Hearts & Bones: Love Songs for Late Youth

  • short stories
  • ireland
  • irish literature
  • contemporary

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Claire Keegan

4.00

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Coco Mellors

4.21

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Maggie Nelson

4.22

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Claire Keegan

3.86

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Eliza Clark

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