The Wren, The Wren : The Booker Prize-winning author

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’