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Olivia Fitzsimons reads the first page of her debut novel, The Quiet Whispers Never Stop (John Murray).
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The Quiet Whispers Never Stop, by Olivia Fitzsimons (John Murray)
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Set in Northern Ireland in the 1980s and 1990s, The Quiet Whispers Never Stop is a story of love, obsession and escape, an uncompromising, lyrical tour-de-force that marks the arrival of an extraordinary new voice in Irish fiction.