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My Fathers House
Emma Byrne
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Description for My Fathers House
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**AS SEEN ON BBC BETWEEN THE COVERS**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4**THE NUMBER ONE IRISH BESTSELLER**
When the Nazis take Rome, thousands go into hiding. One priest will risk everything to save them.
September 1943: German forces occupy Rome. SS officer Paul Hauptmann rules with terror.
An Irish priest, Hugh O'Flaherty, dedicates himself to helping those escaping from the Nazis. His home is Vatican City, a neutral, independent country within Rome where the occupiers hold no sway. He gathers a team to set up an Escape Line.
But Hauptmann's net begins closing in and the need ... Read morefor a terrifyingly audacious mission grows critical. By Christmas, it's too late to turn back.
Based on a true story, My Father's House is a powerful thriller from a master of historical fiction. It is an unforgettable novel of love, sacrifice and what it means to be human in the most extreme circumstances.
'A spectacular, thrilling novel...suspense crackles...celebrates triumphant against-the-odds camaraderie' Sunday Times
'A masterwork... so urgent, so incredibly alive... A searing and beautiful example of storytelling's infinite importance' Donal Ryan
'Impressive and pleasurable...the diverse ventriloquism of O'Connor's novel evokes a city in peril with wonderful vitality' Financial Times
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2024
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
*The second book in the Rome Escape Line Trilogy, THE GHOSTS OF ROME, is available to pre-order now.*
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About Emma Byrne
Joseph O’Connor’s fiction has been published in forty languages. His twenty books include eleven novels, among them the million-selling Star of the Sea, Ghost Light, Shadowplay and My Father’s House, a Washington Post Book of the Year. His work has been shortlisted for the LA Times Book Award, twice for the Whitbread/Costa and twice for the Walter Scott Prize for ... Read moreHistorical Fiction and has won the Nielsen Bookscan Golden Book Award, France’s Prix Millepages, Italy’s Premio Acerbi and Premio Napoli, an American Library Association Award, the American Ireland Fund Literary Award, the Hennessy Writer of the Year and Hall of Fame Awards, the Eason / An Post Novel of the Year Award, a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library, the Irish Pen Award for Outstanding Achievement and the Prix Madeline Zepter for European Novel of the Year. He is Frank McCourt Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. www.josephoconnorauthor.com Show Less
Reviews for My Fathers House
A spectacular, thrilling novel...suspense crackles...celebrates triumphant against-the-odds camaraderie.
Sunday Times
O'Connor is on stellar form with this ensemble thriller ...while the story's inbuilt tension urges you on, it's the sheer vigour of O'Connor's beautifully turned phrases that really makes the book sing...an expert storyteller
Daily Mail
A literary thriller of the highest order. The incarnation of ... Read moreO'Flaherty, the Irish Oskar Schindler, is sublime. What often elevates a writer is compassion, and O'Connor has it in spades... Beautifully crafted, his razor-sharp dialogue is to be savoured, and he employs dark humour to great effect. The plot twists keep on coming
Observer
Breathtakingly good writing - O'Connor puts you right there, centre stage in the story and never lets you go The novel's evocative scene-setting, its propulsive narration and its powerful depiction of bravery and unity in extremis, all make for an engrossing read.
Telegraph
Thrilling... Based on true events, this tense, gripping narrative is rendered in beautifully evocative prose
Mail on Sunday
Impressive and pleasurable...the diverse ventriloquism of O'Connor's novel evokes a city in peril with wonderful vitality
Financial Times
A tale worth re-telling, adorned as it is by the brilliants of O'Connor's impressionistic writing
The Times
A powerful portrait of extraordinary courage
Irish Independent
Precisely choreographed... We eagerly follow the characters through uncertainty and disappointment as well as high-stakes jeopardy. O'Connor is playing with the possibilities of multiple narrators, and thinking also about plurality, reliability and the historical record
Guardian, Book of the Day
Gripping...a hugely satisfying book, from its explosive opening to its bittersweet end
Washington Post
So beautifully written, a masterclass in 'voices' and an extremely tense thriller. It's magnificent. A masterwork... so urgent, so incredibly alive... A searing and beautiful example of storytelling's infinite importance For all its thrills...primarily-and triumphantly-an intimate drama that illuminates both the fragility and the wonder of unlikely human connections forged in adversity and, in some cases, enduring for a lifetime
Wall Street Journal
I cannot say enough good things about this World War II thriller... Told from different perspectives of people in the movement, as well as the Gestapo villain, readers will hold their breath if the Choir will fulfill their critical mission. It's the first of a trilogy and a must read
BookRiot
O'Connor's work is hugely impressive and utterly haunting
Sunday Mirror
Riveting, immersive, synesthetic, linguistically dazzling, funny and dark, this novel is blessed with a kind of magical grace. Sprezzatura springs from every page
SMF Bookclub
O'Connor's writing is always intensely atmospheric...O'Connor succeeds in integrating into the suspenseful plot numerous narrative voices that intersect class, gender, nationality and religion
Literary Review
Gripping, compelling and utterly brilliant. O'Connor's gift for exquisite language shines through A thriller of engrossing urgency
Irish Independent
Joseph O'Connor is a very great artist and storyteller Show Less
