The Wren, The Wren
Anne Enright
£9.99
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WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
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‘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’
Publisher Review
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* *
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