Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

**WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023**

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism.

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step.

Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart.

The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.

How far will she go to save her family?

And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

REVIEWS

'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.' OBSERVER

'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?' FT 

Hardback

Language: English
Extent: 320
Publish Date: 24 August 2023
ISBN: 9780861546459

Paperback

Language: English
Extent: 320
Publish Date: 2 May 2024
ISBN: 9780861545896
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Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Imprint: Oneworld Publications