Prophet Song
Ratings61
Average rating4.2
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Ratings61
Average rating4.2
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, 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 Eilish can only watch helplessly as the world she knew disappears. When first her husband and then her eldest son vanish, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a collapsing society.
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 breathtaking 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.
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This is a heavy, heavy story, and it took me a while to get through.
It is brilliant, challenging, and emotionally raw.
While I don't love the Booker Longlist this year, I do love that it made me read this book. And in a year where I read Demon Copperhead, this may be the most traumatic yet. Made more so by watching what is happening in Israel and Gaza.
