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The Wren, The Wren [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition]
Anne Enright
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S 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 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)
‘Might just be Anne Enright’s best yet’ LOUISE KENNEDY
*A SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, GUARDIAN, TLS, HARPER’S BAZAAR, NEW STATESMAN, THE NEW YORKER, TIME AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEAR*
*WINNER OF THE WRITER’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*
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Reviews for The Wren, The Wren [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition]
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
Nicola Sturgeon
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
Michael Magee
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