How it Ends (Paperback)

Following a stint as a Las Vegas showgirl and an early botched marriage, Lee Annis, at twenty-eight, has finally found some definition and success as part of Anaconda, the band she fronts alongside the enigmatic Billy. But all is set to change as Billy announces that he's about to marry and pull the plug on Anaconda and his life with Lee. Over the course of a restless summer, Lee moves between London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Rome and Berlin in a way that mirrors her childhood spent traversing the Continental Divide, itinerant the length of the Rockies. Lost in the Badlands of fame and glamour, radically detached from any obvious moral lodestar, Lee rediscovers a hapless instinct for misadventure. Unable to shake off the bizarre, sometimes macabre, grip of the past, she resorts to the usual analgesics of sex and drugs, and finds herself betrayed and abandoned by those she has known the longest and loved the best.

As Lee probes the true nature of her complex, sinister relationship with Billy she finds herself wishing there were some men in the world that are not the men she always meets. With emotional acuity and dark, ferocious humour How It Ends chronicles a life spiralling out of control.

An original and brave novel from one of Ireland's most inventive writers.