Heart, Be at Peace

Name: Heart, Be at Peace
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By Donal Ryan

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A stunning lyrical novel from the number one bestselling author Donal Ryan; with the intimacy of Claire Keegan's Small Things like These or Louise Kennedy's Trespasses. A standalone novel that can also be read as a companion to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning bestseller, The Spinning Heart. The... Read More

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A stunning lyrical novel from the number one bestselling author Donal Ryan; with the intimacy of Claire Keegan's Small Things like These or Louise Kennedy's Trespasses. A standalone novel that can also be read as a companion to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning bestseller, The Spinning Heart.

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island

Beautiful...a book full of love and hope, more needed in these days than ever - Kit de Waal

I am blown away by the ambition and scope of this exquisite piece of writing...sublime in both its sentiment and beauty - Rachel Joyce

Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two...

In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding.

But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch...

Told in twenty-one voices, Heart, Be at Peace is a heartfelt, lyrical novel that can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted 'The Irish Book of the Decade'.

PRAISE FOR DONAL RYAN

One of the finest novelists writing today. - Rachel Joyce

His paragraphs are unnoticeably beautiful, his heart always on show - Anne Enright

Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving - David Nicholls

A life-enhancing talent - Sebastian Barry

I would struggle to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal Ryan - Louise O'Neill

Beautiful, compassionate...Donal Ryan at his inimitable best. - Maggie O'Farrell

Beautifully poised, sad, poetic and human....I loved every single line. - Ian Rankin

The prose drips like honey off a spoon - Sunday Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529940138

Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 08 August 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Doubleday

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 137.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 221g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Donal Ryan, from Nenagh, County Tipperary, has published seven number one bestselling novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and six Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more, including the Costa Book Award and the Dublin International Literary Award. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2013 for his debut novel, The Spinning Heart, and again in 2018, for his fourth novel, From A Low and Quiet Sea. The Spinning Heart was voted Irish Book of the Decade in 2016. In 2021 Donal became the first Irish writer to be awarded the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His most recent novel, Heart Be at Peace, won both Novel of the Year and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Nero Book Awards. His work has been adapted for stage and screen and translated into over twenty languages. Donal has lectured in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick since 2014 and lives in Castletroy with his wife Anne Marie and their two children.

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