You Deserve This Wild: A Novel

She came to sell the farm. She found a half-sister in the kitchen.Siobhán Ó Briain has been living quietly at the edge of Ballinderry for three years - since the end of the worst thing she ever did. She didn't expect anything to change. Then her estranged father dies and leaves her a forty-acre farm on the Burren, and when she arrives to clear it, a nineteen-year-old girl is sitting at the kitchen table, furious and entirely certain she belongs there.Roisín is her half-sister. Roisín has nowhere to go. And Roisín, it turns out, has already fallen in love with the limestone plateau, the orchids in the cracks, and the particular kind of farming that has been done here for a thousand years.Set on the extraordinary Burren landscape of County Clare - where Arctic plants and Mediterranean flowers grow in the same limestone crack - You Deserve This Wild is a novel about inheritance, redemption, and the two women who find, in the most unlikely ground, that they might be exactly what the other needs.Perfect for readers of Donal Ryan, Cathy Kelly, and Marian Keyes.