Monika Killeen’s debut novel, An Inflammable Act of Kindness, is an arresting work of auto‑fiction that probes the fraught architecture of mothers and daughters, the afterlives of childhood injury, and the inner transactions that shape who we become.

At its center is Meli — a young woman torn between the debris of a past home and the brittle demands of the present — whose small gestures and private failures reveal how love and harm travel across generations. The everyday acts accumulate into meaning, an offered cup of tea, a hurried apology, a kindness given or withheld. The lapses that haunt intimate life, missed chances to protect, silences that avoid hard truths, moments of weakness or shame, the compromises and betrayals we conceal. Together they are the micro‑movements that, across years and generations, shape attachment, grievance and identity — the ordinary stuff Killeen’s novel traces to show how love and injury are passed on.

Moving from post‑Communist Czechoslovakia to contemporary London, Killeen uses a shifting temporal frame to show how memory, cultural shock and domestic routines conspire to form identity. The book listens closely to the everyday — a gesture of kindness, an offhand remark, a long‑kept silence — and demonstrates how these things accumulate into durable psychic patterns.

Elegant, unsentimental and emotionally exact, An Inflammable Act of Kindness balances clinical insight with intimate storytelling. Killeen’s characters are complex and believable, her prose is precise and humane. The result is a book that not only moves the reader but supplies a sharper way of seeing the dynamics of family life and the work of surviving and remaking the self.

Recommended for readers of literary fiction, clinicians, and anyone interested in the interplay of memory, identity and care. An Inflammable Act of Kindness is available now.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Monika Killeen was born in 1976 in a small town in Slovakia. She left in 1995 to see the world beyond her country's newly opened borders. Discovering life as a young woman in London, she learned English while working as an au-pair. After twenty-six years in the UK and careers in law and psychotherapy, she migrated once again. She now lives on Waiheke Island off the north coast of New Zealand, with her husband, two children, and her dogs Rosie and Daisy, who are easily her best children. An Inflammable Act of Kindness was her first novel.

Book Name: An Inflammable Act of Kindness

Author Name: Monika Killeen

ISBN Number: 978-1991083142

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