'I've been enthusiastically telling everyone who will listen to
read Tana French. Her novels are poignant, compelling, beautifully
written and wonderfully atmospheric. Just start reading the first
page. You'll see what I mean.'
Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Stay
Close
Tana French grew up in Ireland, Italy, the United States and Malawi. She trained as an actor at Trinity College Dublin and has worked mainly in theatre. Her first novel, In the Woods, was published in 2007; it won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity and Barry awards for Best First Novel and the IVCA Clarion Award for Best Fiction. In the Woods and her second novel, The Likeness, were both New York Times bestsellers. She lives in Dublin with her husband and daughter. Broken Harbour is her fourth novel.
'The queen of Irish fiction ... This is a writer working at the
height of her powers. As always with Tana French, you can expect
humour, pathos and well-observed social commentary, but above all,
a cracking story that keeps you guessing until the end'
*Sunday Independent*
'Broken Harbour is a complex, well crafted psychological thriller
as well as an exemplary dissection of the plight of the
disappointed and desperate human wreckage washed up in post-Celtic
Tiger Ireland. As always, French's carefully wrought prose is a
delight ... A hugely impressive and intelligent book, with writing
to savour. It confirms French as the First Lady of Irish
Crime.'
*Irish Independent*
'Gripping'
*Image magazine*
'Establishing atmosphere is one of French's many strengths.
Gradually, an emotionally jolting story of love, obsession and
madness is played out to incredible effect. Since her first novel,
In The Woods, was larded with awards in 2007 French has garnered a
huge legion of fans and they will be thrilled with this, her fourth
and possibly best novel.'
*Daily Mail*
Tana French is one of modern Ireland's great novelists. Broken
Harbour isn't just a wonderful mystery novel, it's also the
era-defining post-Celtic Tiger novel the Irish literati have been
crying out for.
*Evening Herald*
Praise for Tana French
*:*
'I've been enthusiastically telling everyone who will listen to
read Tana French. Her novels are poignant, compelling, beautifully
written and wonderfully atmospheric. Just start reading the first
page. You'll see what I mean.'
*Harlan Coben*
Every holiday needs a good crime novel and French's skilful
thrillers are tailor-made to terrify
*Guardian*
A gripping, literate thriller laced with black humour
*Irish Times*
If you're only going to buy one thriller this year, let it be Tana
French's Faithful Place. Searing, utterly Dub, and very funny . . .
Tana French, Dublin author of international hits . . . is a wonder.
Just don't plan anything if you pick this up; you won't be able to
put it down.
*Evening Herald (Dublin)*
Gripping. Tana French's third novel hooks the reader from the
outset; the characters are masterfully drawn, and the author's ear
for Dublin dialogue is pitch-perfect.
*Irish Independent*
'Ambitious and extraordinary'
*Washington Post*
The first thing that Ms. French does so well in Faithful Place is
to inhabit fully a scrappy, shrewd, privately heartbroken
middle-aged man. The second is to capture the Mackey family's
long-brewing resentments in a way that's utterly realistic on many
levels. Sibling rivalries, class conflicts, old grudges, adolescent
flirtations and memories of childhood violence are all deftly
embedded in this novel, as is the richly idiomatic Dublinese.
*New York Times*
'Crime fiction at its best'
*InStyle magazine*
'One of the most startling debuts I have seen any writer make:
polished, assured, ferociously intelligent, at once very original
and effortlessly engaged with the conventions of crime fiction'
*Sydney Morning Herald*
'Nothing short of a masterpiece. French's first three thrillers
were all brilliant but this is by far her best and reaches a level
of spine-chilling, gripping moreishness that will leave readers
open-mouthed with admiration. If I encounter a better novel than
Broken Harbour before French publishes her fifth, I'll eat a
milliner's shop full of hats.'
*Sophie Hannah, Daily Express*
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