2024 The Writers' Prize for Fiction
2024 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee)
WINNER OF THE WRITERS’ PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024
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‘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’
‘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’
Genre: Literary Fiction
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’
‘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’
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Somehow both classic and thoroughly contemporary. Very few writers could capably achieve such a thing and I remain, as ever, in awe of Anne's talents." - Sara Baume
"Sharp, sudden, mischievous, sublime - this is a dazzling novel; a glorious multi-generational novel of tangled relationships, secrets, bodies, sex. Nell must be one of the best young women I've read in recent Irish fiction." - Lucy Caldwell
"These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. As for the women he left ... Carmel's mothering made me blush with recognition and I wanted the world for Nell. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright's best yet." - Louise Kennedy
"Anne Enright's style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion's; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro's; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien." - Colm Tóibín
"Sharp, sudden, mischievous, sublime - this is a dazzling novel; a glorious multi-generational novel of tangled relationships, secrets, bodies, sex. Nell must be one of the best young women I've read in recent Irish fiction." - Lucy Caldwell
"These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. As for the women he left ... Carmel's mothering made me blush with recognition and I wanted the world for Nell. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright's best yet." - Louise Kennedy
"Anne Enright's style is as sharp and brilliant as Joan Didion's; the scope of her understanding is as wide as Alice Munro's; her vision of Ireland is as brave and original as Edna O'Brien." - Colm Tóibín
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