The brilliant debut novel from Emilie Pine author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELFDublin 7 October 2019One day one city two women Ruth and Pen Neither knows the other but both are asking the same questions how to be with others and how when the world wont make space for you to be with yourselfRuths marriage to Aidan is in crisis Today she needs to make a choice to stay or not to stay to take the risk of reaching out or to pull up the drawbridgeFor teenage Pen today is the day the words will flow and she will speak her truth to Alice to ask for what she so desperately wantsRUTH amp PEN is the fictional debut from Emilie Pine author of the international bestseller NOTES TO SELF Deeply involving poignant and radiantly intelligent it is a portrait of the limits of grief and love of how we navigate our inner and outer landscapes and the tender courage demanded by the simple daily quest of living
