Prophet Song

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by Lynch, Paul | Fiction & related items Published 24/08/2023 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom Hardback | 320 pages163 x 242 x 35mm | 522g On a dark, wet evening in D ublin, 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, 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. How far will she go to save her family? And what - or who - is she willing to leave behind? Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breath-taking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together. Show more