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A heartbreaking love story, This Is How It Ends is set in the winter of 2008. The novel tells the story of two people who collide with each other just as the whole world seems to be caught between the drama of Obama’s election and the catastrophic collapse of the global economy.   

Bruno is a middle-aged American banker who has come to Ireland as a refugee from the financial meltdown in his own country. Addie is an out of work Irish architect. When she meets Bruno, her life seems to be on a downward spiral. 

Addie and Bruno’s story is a story of nationality and identity, of the power of optimism to defeat despair and the unstoppable march of time. It’s the story of two people who find joy together when they were least expecting it. It’s about family and dogs and swimming in the sea. It’s about the past and the future and the elusive skill of living in the moment.  

INFORMATION

This Is How It Ends became the sensation of London Book Fair in April 2011 when it was bought by the Little,Brown Book Group in the UK and Grand Central Publishing in the US. Since then, translation rights have been sold for twenty-five languages.  

This Is How It Ends will be published in Ireland on 3rd May 2012. 

UK publication date is 24th May 2012. 

Australia and New Zealand publication date is June 2012.

Italian publication date is June 2012.

US publication 7th August 2012.

Spanish publication Autumn 2012.

German publication Spring 2013.

This Is How It Ends will also be available in audio book format and on Kindle.

Ebook
RRP: £13.00
ISBN: 9780748132195
Release Date UK: 24/05/2012

Hardback
RRP: £12.99
ISBN: 9781847445469
Release Date UK: 24/05/2012

Digital Download
RRP: £16.99
ISBN: 9781405517539
Release Date UK: 24/05/2012

Trade Paperback
RRP: £13.99
ISBN: 9781847445551
Export publication date: 03/05/2012

Audio Book
Reader: Caroline Lennon
RRP: £16.99
Available from: Audible and iTunes

Audio Clips

This audio clip gives a lovely introduction to each of the Murphys: Addie – kind, gentle, eager to please; Della – stubborn and fiercely independent; and Hugh – impatient and arrogant, but with just a glimpse of the fatherly warmth that is his ultimate redeeming feature.

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This second clip is longer and not only introduces the Murphys but also Bruno the middle-aged American banker who has come to Ireland as a refugee from the financial meltdown in his own country.

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