And when I finally stepped off the train and onto the familiar platform, I felt a wave of peace wash over me. I was home, and I knew that no matter where life took me, this would always be the place where my heart felt at peace.

Author Seamas O'Reilly summed it up well, calling the novel "Beautifully written, frequently hilarious, and maddeningly real".

It's not just the humourless estate agent or the invisible, problematic upstairs neighbours. It's the chill from the draughty windows, the damp creeping up from the cellar, and the unsettling way the expensive organic fruit and vegetables spoil far too quickly. The more time Áine spends in the flat, spiraling into obsessive thoughts and dissecting text messages from friends who seem to be moving forward with their lives, the more the walls feel like they're closing in. The book masterfully blurs the line between a literal haunting and the psychological unravelling of a woman trapped in a place she can't afford to leave and isn't sure she wants to stay in.

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In our fast-paced, often chaotic world, the feeling of longing—a profound sense of missing something that you cannot quite define—is a universal human experience. It is this emotional landscape that makes the popular phrase (and underlying theme of) resonate so deeply with readers worldwide.

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Yet, every evening, as the sun dipped below the horizon, a hollow ache would open in her chest. She would look at her hand-thrown ceramic mug, her soft linen sheets, and her husband’s sleeping face, and a quiet, devastating thought would drift through her mind: I want to go home.

Róisín Lanigan is an Irish editor and writer based between London and Belfast. Her sharp, insightful work has been featured in some of the world's most prestigious publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Atlantic, and VICE. Before her debut novel, she was longlisted for the Curtis Brown First Novel Prize in 2019 and won the Blue Pencil Agency First Novel Award in 2020.

(집에 있는데도 집에 가고 싶어) by Kwon Rabin, an English translation titled "Yearning for Home While I'm at Home" was released in January 2022 Adarna House Inc

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