By Gabriella West
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At 15, Cathy Quinn is an intelligent misfit living in 1980s Dublin. As the book opens she discovers that her charming older brother Stevie, who's gay, is falling in love with the one boy in school whom she likes. Over her last two years of school, Cathy struggles with her dysfunctional family, coming to terms with her powerful attraction to her best friend Jeanette, and leaving Ireland. <b>The Leaving</b> is a realistic, yet lyrical, look at adolescence and first love.<br><br>Above all, the novel explores the intersecting lives of two emotionally close siblings growing up in the hostile and homophobic Dublin of the 1980s, when homosexuality was still taboo, and being different was not tolerated.<br><br><b>Gabriella West</b> is also the author of the lesbian historical novel <b>Time of Grace</b>, set in Dublin in 1916.At 15, Cathy Quinn is an intelligent misfit living in 1980s Dublin. As the book opens she discovers that her charming older brother Stevie, who's gay, is falling in love with the one boy in school whom she likes. Over her last two years of school, Cathy struggles with her dysfunctional family, coming to terms with her powerful attraction to her best friend Jeanette, and leaving Ireland. <b>The Leaving</b> is a realistic, yet lyrical, look at adolescence and first love.<br><br>Above all, the novel explores the intersecting lives of two emotionally close siblings growing up in the hostile and homophobic Dublin of the 1980s, when homosexuality was still taboo, and being different was not tolerated.<br><br><b>Gabriella West</b> is also the author of the lesbian historical novel <b>Time of Grace</b>, set in Dublin in 1916. Read more
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