Juno Loves Legs

Juno and Legs will break your heart in the very best way and leave you laughing in spite of yourself. It's a perfectly drawn portrait of lives lived boldly on the edge of disaster. A backstreet epic. I literally couldn't put it down

Jan Carson, author of THE RAPTURES

An unforgettable portrait of two young misfits bound together by hard Dublin childhoods. The characters are so real, so desperate to be loved, that the reader will want to reach through the pages and hold them.

Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of SHUGGIE BAIN and YOUNG MUNGO

Juno Loves Legs will haunt you long after you have read it. In gorgeous, effortless prose, Karl Geary bears witness to those who, like his protagonists, are invisible and voiceless. By boldly confronting the darkness, this novel finds the light

Gabriel Byrne, author of WALKING WITH GHOSTS

A tender, wrenching portrait of two young outsiders searching for sanctuary in the bruised hearts of one another . . . defiantly illuminated by the humor and humanity of its unforgettable protagonist. You will ache for Juno

Dan Sheehan, author of RESTLESS SOULS

Karl Geary is such a beautiful writer. Juno Loves Legs is completely authentic and harrowing and brilliantly observed . . . a heartbreaker, and absolutely unforgettable.

Donal Ryan, author of THE QUEEN OF DIRT ISLAND

A luminous ode to an unforgettable friendship forged between two misfits in the dark days of 1980s Dublin... It's a story saturated with hardship and heartbreak, but Geary's pared-back, poetic prose and radiant characterisation transform all the haunted hopelessness into something sublime

Mail on Sunday

Like fellow Irish novelist Donal Ryan, Geary writes fractured outsiders not just with skill but with humility... Juno Loves Legs, in all its painful beauty, is a more than worthy successor [to Montpelier Parade]

Guardian

[A] deeply affecting story… Be prepared for an ending to leave you reeling

Sainsbury's Magazine