The Damage Done

“Do you know, I haven’t thought about that summer in the longest time.”

When Miriam’s mother reluctantly allows her to go and work in a hotel for the summer she befriends her roommate, the beautiful, bohemian Marie-Thérèse. Marie-Thérèse’s confidence propels Miriam into experiencing life in a way she hasn’t been allowed to before. 'The Damage Done' is a story of firsts: adventure, love, freedom and a bond that will never be broken.

Catherine Dunne is the award-winning author of nine novels. She has also published one work of non-fiction, a social history of Irish immigrants in London, called 'An Unconsidered People'.

Catherine was awarded the Giovanni Boccaccio International Prize for Fiction in 2013 for her book 'The Things We Know Now', the International Prize at the Vigevano Literary Festival in Italy in 2006, and has been shortlisted for, among others, the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award and the Italian Booksellers’ Award.