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The Fall Girl

Jul 13, 2025 11:06 AM

Author:Denise Sewell

The Fall Girl

The day Frances Fall steals a baby from outside a shop, is the day her past catches up with her. At the age of thirty-six, Frances is forced to relive a life dominated on one side by a harsh unloving mother, and on the other by friendship with the most dazzling girl in their no-hope town. As she puts together the pieces of her past, Frances must finally confront and forgive betrayals that she has never understood. But most of all, at the end of a stunning and moving journey of pain and redemption, Frances must forgive herself - if she can.

Reviews

Intriguing and moving … addictive

—— RTÉ GUIDE

Beautifully written and riveting

—— SUNDAY INDEPENDENT

Refreshingly honest, thought-provoking … uplifting' WOMAN

—— S WAY

Sewell has talent to burn

—— IRISH EXAMINER

Touching

—— IRISH TIMES

A fine book

—— IRISH MAIL ON SUNDAY

An excellent introduction to his sympathetic, refined and humane art, and is a most moving and impressive artefact in itself

—— Independent on Sunday

A lovely, heartbreaking book

—— New York Sun

Rare...exquisite...a cameo-like perfection

—— New York Herald Tribune

Compelling, heart-wrenching and laced with redemptive hope . . . Touching and funny

—— Observer

The greatest comic writer ever

—— Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

—— Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

—— Ben Elton

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

—— Stephen Fry

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in

—— Evelyn Waugh

Lovely

—— Daily Telegraph

Moving and intelligent

—— Independent

Magnetic, unpretentious and bursting with one-liners

—— Cosmopolitan

Jewell's readability and emotional intelligence make her the cream of pop fiction

—— Glamour

Fans of chick-lit will understand when I say that this is a book you simply disappear into

—— Sunday Telegraph

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