This Is How It Ends - Softcover

It's impossible to look away from this love story. Addie may be struggling when we meet her . . . but she's cool and funny and she carries this novel with the charisma of a classic heroine. It will leave you a weeping mess just as Em and Dex's story did. It will also leave you feeling utterly bereft to no longer be in its company (Observer)

When you have long forgotten many other fictional lovers, there is something about Addie and Bruno, their past and their world, that will not go away (Maeve Binchy, The Irish Times)

This is How it Ends is an unforgettable story of love and hope - a moving tale which touches the heart (Cecelia Ahern)

An exceptional novel . . . It is truly a story for our time. This is How it Ends signals the belated arrival of a new Irish commercial writer with an extraordinary gift and a voice that is entirely her own (Irish Independent)

Kathleen MacMahon's prose could not appear more effortless or beautiful . . . The twist in this tale is utterly unexpected and satisfyingly unpredictable . . . A bittersweet, engaging novel that will no doubt become a book-club darling (Sunday Independent)

A tender love story. A book about love, family, children and that glorious sense of being alive (Irish Examiner)

The beginning of bank protests, alongside the American election and how crucial it seemed, send a tremor through the narrative (Sunday Times)

This wonderful new author is a force to be reckoned with (Dubray Books)

A tender love story (RTE Guide)

It has 'future classic' written all over it (Glamour)