Catherine Prasifka for This is How You Remember It

We are so thrilled to welcome Catherine Prasifka to the bookshop this May for her new book This is How You Remember It. Catherine's debut novel None of This Is Serious was a bestseller and was picked as 'one to watch' for 2022 by the Irish Times, Stylist and the Irish Independent .

It was also a firm favourite in the bookshop and the book of the year 2022 for one of our booksellers.

You're nine when you get your first computer. Your favourite thing is a virtual pet website; you spend hours in the chatroom. You don't understand why some of your online friends don't use their real names.

It's not long before you discover porn. You don't know what you're watching, but you do know that you shouldn't tell anybody. Later, older, your first kiss is captured on camera and shared with everyone in your year. It feels like betrayal, but soon it feels normal. Part of the incessant cycle of posting, sharing and liking.

Now, you can't remember a time when you didn't feel hollow inside. Now, you know that something has to change.

Chilling, potent and intensely intimate, This is How You Remember It is at once a cautionary tale, a call to arms and a tender love story. It is about a life lived online, and about finding another way, when it's all you've ever known.

'Smart, insightful and compassionate. A gorgeous book with both brains and heart' -- CLAIRE HENNESSY

'Humane, powerful, compassionate and unsparing, this is a book for our times' -- ROSEMARY HENNIGAN