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The Wren, The Wren

The Booker Prize-winning author
By Anne Enright
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, The Wren, The Wren is a sparkling family story of love, betrayal, and reunion. 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.... Read More
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Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction, The Wren, The Wren is a sparkling family story of love, betrayal, and reunion.

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.

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ISBN: 9781529922905

Publisher: Vintage Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 25 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Vintage

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 17.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 196.0mm

Weight: 204g

Pages: 288

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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 seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction.

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