On the Way Out
| By: | Liam Horan |
| Publisher: | The Limerick Writers' Centre |
| Published: | November 2025 |
| Pages: | 220 |
| Categories: | Humanities, Literature, Non-Fiction |
| Language: | English |
| Available as: | Paperback |
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On the Way Out navigates the lives of ordinary people with tenderness, wit, and acuity. This debut novel captures the complicated and often sticky web of small-town life: overlapping conversations in community halls, wary bonds formed in half-heated meeting rooms, gossip that can be both kind and cruel. The town itself is a character—a bit ragged but full of possibility. Each chapter alternates between characters so that their lives echo and refract off each other. How will Louise’s struggle with her shop bump against Matt’s attempts at connection? How will Tríona’s breathing exercises help these residents catch their breath and continue on? The dialogue is sharp but not heartless, funny but also reveals the ache of loneliness and grief. On the Way Out offers heartbreak and heart mending, showing us that we are, indeed, bound together in community”