SICILIAN GIRL
Sicilian Girl won the International Debut Novel Competition in Dublin in December 2025.
Spanning pre-war Sicily to 1978 it is set in an old borgo by the sea where young women fight to be heard above the mafia-driven patriarchy.
Sicilian Girl is a portrait of betrayals – personal and political, a meditation on the choices afforded to women and an excavation of Sicily’s tangled roots that shows how the legacy of the past continues to shape lives in the present. Ultimately, Sicilian Girl is about female resistance to silence.
SICILIAN GIRL
Sicilian Girl won the International Debut Novel Competition in Dublin in December 2025.
Spanning pre-war Sicily to 1978 it is set in an old borgo by the sea where young women fight to be heard above the mafia-driven patriarchy.
Sicilian Girl is a portrait of betrayals – personal and political, a meditation on the choices afforded to women and an excavation of Sicily’s tangled roots that shows how the legacy of the past continues to shape lives in the present. Ultimately, Sicilian Girl is about female resistance to silence.
WATER WILL FIND ITS WAY
Water Will Find its Way is self-published on Amazon in 2012. An exploration of family bonds and identity among three generations of women displaced by war, it begs you to understand how changing fortunes can make people do things they find unsavoury. It tells of the importance of saving from oblivion, with music as the redemptive link to three women’s quest to recover their origins.
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WATER WILL FIND ITS WAY
Water Will Find its Way is self-published on Amazon in 2012. An exploration of family bonds and identity among three generations of women displaced by war, it begs you to understand how changing fortunes can make people do things they find unsavoury. It tells of the importance of saving from oblivion, with music as the redemptive link to three women’s quest to recover their origins.
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Murmuration
Flicker spin across the grey horizon,
aerial dynamics of starlings in sonic formation.
There’s no one around to share this glory with,
it’s all for me. I listen in. Freedom this way.
If only it were so easy to up and leave.
Stormi di storni, in Italian,
that shifting inky swell-print against the sky.
Unfettered democracy of the flock
in tune with one another. Listening.
I’m finding freedom without flight, the greater fight this time.
Tá mé i dtiúin.
I am in tune.
Bronagh Slevin 
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