You have to make your own fun around here, paperback/frances macken

Evelyn is intoxicating.

Shes self-assured, mercurial, dominant and mischievous.

But shes also mean, and as much as her best friends Katie and Maeve crave her approval, theirs is a threesome held together by fear.

As the girls grow up and start to look beyond their small Irish village, they must step out of Evelyns shadow.

This mesmerising debut, brilliantly evocative of rural Ireland, is a compellingly readable portrait of the places, and people, that continue to shape us long after weve decided to leave them behind.

About the Author Frances Macken was born in Claremorris, Co.

She completed a BA in Film and Television Production and has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Oxford.

Her short stories have been shortlisted for prizes run by RT and Penguin Ireland.

You Have to Make Your Own Fun Around Her e is her debut work of literary fiction.