Immy is haunted by all the lives she has lived; they clamour in the back of her mind, crying out for attention, crying for the person she was a hundred, maybe a thousand years ago. But Immy is trying to live in the here and now, and she’s falling in love. She has been in love before, of course, but never like this.
The Deepest Breath, the latest novel by award-winning Irish author Meg Grehan, is a beautiful, sensitive verse novel whose flowing narrative will carry you along with its eleven-year-old protagonist Stevie on her journey of self-discovery.
It’s New Year’s Eve and Beth has had enough: she decides to be a recluse. She builds a controlled world within her house of routine, books and silence. For months she is alone with her thoughts, until a dog appears, and then its beautiful owner, Alice. Beth’s space and plans for solitude change.
