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Ghost Wedding
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A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction. "David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists." — Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler, this beautiful novel follows two troubled men,...
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A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction
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A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fiction.
"David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists." — Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments
For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler, this beautiful novel follows two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bound by the ghosts of their past.
When George Allenby is put in charge of building a lake in the grounds of an imposing Irish manor house, he intends to do the job as swiftly as possible and return to Belfast. Allenby is still wrestling with his time as an officer during the First World War, burdened by the many things he could have done differently.
Almost a century later, Alex and Ellie are preparing for their wedding, sparing no expense to hire a venue overlooking the very lake Allenby built all those years ago.
Like Allenby before him, Alex is haunted by decisions he made in the past. Now, with the wedding drawing ever closer, he is at a crossroads. Telling the truth might free him from his guilt; it might also take away everything he cares about, including Ellie.
In this masterful portrait of love and betrayal, Ghost Wedding reveals the many ways the past seeps into the present: destructive, formidable, but also hopeful, in the moments of fragile beauty that remain.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780861549733
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Edition: MMP
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 288
About the Author
David Park is the author of ten novels, a novella and two collections of short stories. The Healing won the Authors’ Club First Novel Award, and his novel Travelling in a Strange Land won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year. The Light of Amsterdam was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His work has been shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year four times. He has received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and an Honorary Fellowship in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast.
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