The much anticipated new novel from the acclaimed author of The Spinning Heart and The Thing About December.
Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first three
novels, The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and All We
Shall Know, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun,
have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won
the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature
(Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was
shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award,
longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize,
and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a
Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for Man Booker Prize and
shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018.
A former civil servant, Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the
University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their
two children just outside Limerick City.
Poetic, powerful and heart-rending
*The Times*
A joy to read, for all that it breaks your heart
*Independent*
One of the finest writers working in Ireland today ... worthy of
Greek drama
*Guardian*
An exquisite account of womanhood, friendship, prejudice and
tradition that is both intimate in scale and awesome in
achievement
*Irish Independent*
Work of genius ... I was entranced by it. Buckled by it.
*Sebastian Barry*
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