WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

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 * LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE

AN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023

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.

’A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.’ OBSERVER

The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism.

On a dark, rainy night in Dublin, scientist and mother of four, Eilish Stack, opens her door to find the GNSB officers on her doorstep. Two policemen from Ireland's newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, Larry, a unionist.

Ireland is collapsing. The country is under the influence of a government turning to tyranny, and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself trapped within the nightmarish logic of a society unraveling rapidly. Soon, she must decide how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.

Profoundly hopeful, terrifying, and action-oriented, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country in collapse and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when facing the darkest times.

’A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?’ FT

Pages: 320, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm