FROM THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER
'Beautiful, haunting.' LOUISE KENNEDY
'Vividly real . . . There's love here as well as pain.' MARIAN KEYES
'A sure-footed and emotionally complex novel . . . absorbing.' IRISH TIMES
'I loved it.' LIZ NUGENT
Please don't hang up. I don't know if you remember. You used to live with me.
You and your mother. Ruby lives with her father in an old farmhouse at the end of a dirt road. He teaches her to hunt, to forage for mushrooms, to gut a fish.
She learns to tiptoe around his temper - and never to ask about her absent mother. Ruby has no idea that, hundreds of miles away, a woman she barely remembers is desperate to answer those same questions. Captivating, tender and deeply moving, Tell Me What I Am is an unforgettable portrait of the indelible bonds of family - and how far we will go for the ones we love.
