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Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller
Donal Ryan
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Description for Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller
Paperback.
Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE
'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIAN
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.
Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change ... Read morethe course of her family's life forever.
Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
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'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' INDEPENDENT
'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' KATHLEEN MACMAHON
'Exquisite . . . Beautiful' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID
'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' RÓNÁN HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL
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Product Details
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
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About Donal Ryan
Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical 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 ... Read morethe 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 the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His novel, Strange Flowers, was voted Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was a number one bestseller, as was his most recent novel The Queen of Dirt Island, which was also shortlisted for Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. 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. Show Less
Reviews for Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller
Here is love as a weapon and a balm. Love as faith, fate and redemption ... a gorgeously wrought book - compassionate without dissolving into nostalgia
Guardian
Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving
David Nicholls
A triumph ... Ryan slowly and beautifully reveals the way that even broken people can open the door fully to the truth ... Read moreof themselves
Independent, Best Books of 2020
His moving story of love and loss deserves to win a host of awards. It's an outstanding read
Sunday Express
I think you have to truly love people to write like this
Rachel Joyce
A triumph of quiet but devastating power, by some distance the best novel I've read so far this year
Joseph O'Connor A big-hearted, beautiful work of art, full of truth and intensity
Kit de Waal
Classic Ryan; poignant and atmospheric storytelling ... quiet but intermittently explosive
Observer
I knew Donal Ryan's latest would be good and I was right - it's a risky act of imagination that works, and the sentences are as beautiful as ever
Sarah Moss
The Times
The lyricism of Ryan's prose, laced with compassion, is astonishing
Best Irish Novels of the Year
Irish Independent
With each new novel Donal Ryan's ink seems to sink deeper into the page. In Strange Flowers he gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them
Rónán Hession, author of Leonard and Hungry Paul
A book so exquisite in its language it pushes me to want to write better ... you will love the quiet world of Paddy & Kit Gladney and all it is their daughter Moll brings to their door. Beautiful
Anne Griffin, author of When All Is Said
A beautiful, almost unbearably moving novel. Donal Ryan's compassion shines through every word he writes
Louise O’Neill
This is a novel to savour, for its mastery of language, its power of storytelling and its sure hand as it covers the sweep of time. Irish fiction was in a great place already, but Donal Ryan has gone and raised the bar again. All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages
Kathleen MacMahon The lyricism of the prose can be pitch perfect, placing Ryan among the great writers of rural Ireland such as John McGahern and Mary Lavin
Sunday Times
It is the sweetest, gentlest story of love ... each character so tenderly evoked
Saga Magazine
Ryan's beautifully written story reads like coming home and is a breath of fresh air
Best Novels of 2020
Image Magazine
Tender and beautifully written ... We read this outstanding book in one sitting and will definitely return to it again
Independent
What a beautiful book, I loved it
Sinéad Morrissey
Beautifully observed Tipperary setting and tenderly created characters telling a story of loss and redemption ... Love permeates Ryan's work
Irish Times
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