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Susan Stairs has lived in Ireland since early childhood. After working in the art business for many years and writing several books around the theme of Irish art, she completed an MA in Creative Writing at University College Dublin in 2009. In the same year,she was one of six writers shortlisted by Richard Ford for the Davy Byrnes Irish Writing Award. She lives in Dublin with her family. The Story of Before is her first novel.

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	The Story of Before 3.78 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Boy Between 3.70 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	One Good Reason 3.22 avg rating — 65 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Curious Impulse: New Writing from the MA in Creative Writing UCD by Jamie O'Connell, Tanya Tynan, Caroline Dowling liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves

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“It was right and perfect from the very beginning. Their tiny girl had taken hold and, if not for her, for her helpless cry and the sharp urgency of her hunger, there would be no strength in their tale, no ending to live for, no lives that would be worth defending”
― Susan Stairs, One Good Reason

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“I wonder today how no one else could see the bad thing coming. Not that I knew back then what the bad thing was; and if I had - if I'd known one of us was going to die - would there have been anything I could have done to prevent it? I play back in my mind, over and over. The clues were all there.”
― Susan Stairs, The Story of Before

tags: foreshadowing, tragedy

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