Description
Tadgh Lynch has always been the quiet one - not because he's calm, but because silence is safer than breaking apart again. After the fire, after Teddy, after losing everything that made him who he was, Tadgh has been surviving in the Kavanagh house, pretending he's fine. He drinks, he fights, he smiles - but he's still just patching holes in a sinking ship. Orla Wilkinson knows about pretending, too. In a house ruled by her father's fists, her sister's cruelty, and her sister's boyfriend's unwanted eyes, she's been disappearing piece by piece for years. School is the only place she can breathe - and that's where she meets Tadgh. He shouldn't notice her. She shouldn't want him to. But sometimes two broken things recognise each other before they even speak.
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