Claire Kilroy

Soldier Sailor is longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024. Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us and all is well, for now . . . In her first novel for over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the early days of motherhood. Exploring the...

All Names Have Been Changed is set in Dublin in the mid-1980s—a city in the grip of recession and a heroin epidemic. Narrated by Declan, the only boy of a tight-knit writing group at Trinity College, it tells of their fascination with the formidably talented but troubled writer Glynn, and the darkly exhilarating journey this leads them on. Brilliantly exploring...

Anna Hunt has lost her memory and is on the run. From who and what she is unsure, but trapped in the present she seems certain of only one thing — she is somehow linked to the stolen painting currently being restored in the National Gallery. In a wonderfully unsettling first novel, All Summer, Claire Kilroy manages to combine beautiful,...