Prophet Song

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English language

Published Aug. 8, 2023 by Oneworld Publications.

ISBN:
978-0-86154-645-9
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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, Larry, 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. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.

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reviewed Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Stressful read for all the right reasons

Thanks to the way it was written and the story combined, this book grabs you by the throat and infects you with the main character's stress that oozes out of the pages. Couldn't read this in one go, and the final 50 pages were a constant battle between reading on for the story and putting it aside because it was just so harrowing. One of those books that will ruin your day, if not your week, because it's just so good and awful at the same time.

reviewed Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

Experience the relentless whirlwind of life-changing events. As glimpsed only on the sanitised evening news if you're lucky! Devastatingly perceptive. Prepare for the emotional impact. The wind from your lungs.

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