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WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
TAKE FLIGHT WITH THE IRRESISTIBLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER
‘A magnificent novel’ SALLY ROONEY
Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell’s leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. Over them both falls the long shadow of Carmel’s famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.
From our greatest chronicler of family life, The Wren, The Wren is a story of the love that can unite us, and the individual acts that threaten this vital bond.
‘A triumph?treasure it’ Sunday Times
‘One of the great living writers on the subject of family’ New York Times
‘A must-read’ MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter)
‘A pleasure from beginning to end’ Irish Times
* Book of the Year for the Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, TLS, Harper’s Bazaar, New Statesman, New Yorker, Time and Washington Post *
Readers love The Wren, The Wren
‘I was swept away? absolutely beautiful’
‘A must-read: her best novel yet’
‘Stunning? a five-star read’
‘A wonderful novel? I could not wish for more’
‘A novel to fall into? gorgeous’
‘Magnificent?moving, beautiful’
‘Spellbinding? you are astonished over and over’
‘I loved this book’
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The Wren, The Wren is a magnificent novel. Anne Enright's stylistic brilliance seems to put the reader directly in touch with her characters and the rich territory of their lives
Sally Rooney, author of NORMAL PEOPLE
The Wren, The Wren may be her best book yet
Guardian, *Books of the Year*
Wonderful… This deceptively modest novel is the kind of book that will work on you long after you have put it down
Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright's best yet
Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses
Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren is so good they named it twice, so good I read it twice – and read two different novels, because moral positions are incorrigibly plural in Enrightville
Observer, *Books of the Year*
Gritty, sad, sly, riotous… Gem-packed language that fizzes like a sidewalk firecracker. A must-read
Margaret Atwood, author of THE HANDMAID’S TALE (via Twitter)
The Wren, The Wren is Anne Enright at her lyrical, storytelling best
New Statesman, *Books of the Year* – Nicola Sturgeon
This is the golden age of Irish prose fiction. Of our many prodigiously talented novelist, few have the all-encompassing deftness of touch of Anne Enright
Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*
One of my books of any year. It’s about womanhood, youth and that slow, painful, but joyous estrangement that emerges between mother and daughter as life runs its tumultuous course
Observer, *Books of the Year* – Michael Magee
A work of astounding ventriloquism and hard-won hope about women’s lives
Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*
| Weight | 0.204 kg |
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| Dimensions | 197 × 129 × 18 cm |
