A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE 'Might just be her best yet' LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES 'Gem-packed language... A must-read' MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter) Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - 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. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. This is a meditation on love- spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. 'One of our greatest living novelists' THE TIMES
A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been. A contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author 'A magnificent novel' SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE 'Might just be her best yet' LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES 'Gem-packed language... A must-read' MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter) Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - 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. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions. This is a meditation on love- spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent. 'One of our greatest living novelists' THE TIMES
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction.
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**
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**
A work of astounding ventriloquism and hard-won hope about women’s
lives
*Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year**
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