WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023<\/p>\n
WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 * SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD<\/p>\n
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER<\/p>\n
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE<\/p>\n
AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023<\/p>\n
A Book of the Year for 2023 according to the Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily Telegraph, Irish Times and Waterstones<\/p>\n
‘A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES… BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.’ OBSERVER<\/p>\n
The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism <\/p>\n
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland\u2019s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, Larry, a trade unionist. <\/p>\n
Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe. <\/p>\n
Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch’s Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times. <\/p>\n
‘A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine \u2015 what if this was me?’ FT <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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