''I COULDN''T STOP READING'' RODDY DOYLE
''AN EXQUISITE FAMILY EPIC'' CLAIRE LYNCH
An immersive multi-generational family story from the beloved and bestselling author of
Ask Again, Yes.
Inspired by the author''s own family history, Whale Harbour follows the fortunes of eleven
brothers, whose lives are set on different paths in the wake of a sudden tragedy. Whilst
the younger brothers remain in Ireland, the older ones head overseas to Montana and
New York, where they find work and build lives and families of their own. When one
brother mysteriously disappears and becomes estranged from the family, it sparks a
lifelong quest to find him.
Mary Beth Keane attended Barnard C ollege and the University of Virginia, where she
received an MFA. She was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing,
and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America and the
Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Walking People, Fever and Ask Again, Yes,
which spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was translated into
twenty-two languages.


