ISBN He is Mine and I Have No Other book Hardcover 240 pages

I was frightened of him in a way - of his grief, his loneliness - for he looked like the loneliest person on earth just then ... the type of boy who wondered about things, as I did, who broke his heart wondering about things ...'In 1990s-small-town Ireland, amid the sweaty school discos and first fumblings of adolescence, fifteen-year-old Lani Devine falls in love with Leon Brady, whose mother is buried in the cemetery next to Lani's house.Lani is haunted by the stories of thirty-five orphaned girls, buried in an unmarked grave near Leon's mother. As the love story unfolds, and then unravels, it becomes clear that Leon too is haunted - by a brutal family tragedy that has left scars much more than skin-deep.He Is Mine and I Have No Other is a captivating, eerie and atmospheric novel about the obsessive power of first love, about the claustrophobia a tight-knit family and community can cause, and about buried secrets and the havoc they wreak.

Rebecca O'Connor's first collection of poetry We'll Sing Blackbird was shortlisted for the Strong Shine Award. Her writing has been published in the Guardian, the Spectator and Poetry Review, among other places, and is a recipient of a Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. She has completed a seven-month residency at the Wordsworth Trust and is co-founder and publisher of The Moth Magazine . She lives in County Cavan, Ireland.@RebeccaMoth