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Author: Enright, Anne
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Published on 31 August 2023 by Vintage Publishing (Jonathan Cape Ltd) in the United Kingdom.
Hardback | 288 pages
145 x 224 x 29 | 394g
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024**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 magnificent novel SALLY ROONEYNell 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, Nells 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 Carmels 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 triumphtreasure it SUNDAY TIMESOne of the great living writers on the subject of family NEW YORK TIMESA must-read MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter)Might just be Anne Enrights best yet LOUISE KENNEDY*A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, TLS, HARPERS BAZAAR, NEW STATESMAN, THE NEW YORKER, TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR**WINNER OF THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*
