The Wren, Wren

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 contemporary novel of daughterhood and motherhood, from the Booker Prize-winning Irish author\'A magnificent novel\'SALLY ROONEY, author of NORMAL PEOPLE\'Might just be her best yet\'LOUISE KENNEDY, author of TRESPASSES\'Gem-packed language... A must-read\'MARGARET ATWOOD, author of THE HANDMAID\'S TALE (via Twitter)Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - 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. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel\'s famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A multigenerational novel that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.\'One of our greatest living novelists\'THE TIMES

WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024TAKE FLIGHT WITH THE IRRESISTIBLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE WINNER‘A magnificent novel’ SALLY ROONEYNell 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)‘A pleasure from beginning to end’ Irish Times * Book of the Year for the Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, TLS, Harper’s Bazaar, New Statesman, New Yorker, Time and Washington Post *Readers love The Wren, The Wren‘I was swept away… absolutely beautiful’‘A must-read: her best novel yet’‘Stunning… a five-star read’‘A wonderful novel… I could not wish for more’‘A novel to fall into… gorgeous’‘Magnificent…moving, beautiful’‘Spellbinding… you are astonished over and over’‘I loved this book’