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The Wren, The Wren
Author: Anne Enright
Format: Paperback
Winner of the Writers' Prize for Fiction 2024
Take Flight with the Irresistible New Novel from the Booker Prize Winner
'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)
'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'
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'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'
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About the Author
Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday's Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
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