Prophet Song - Winner of the Booker Prize 2023
By Paul Lynch

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE * SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 *and SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZEAand SUNDAY TIMESand BESTSELLERAand NEW YORK TIMESand EDITOR'S CHOICEAN AMAZON TOP 10 BOOK OF DECEMBER 2023A Book of the Year for 2023and according toand theand Guardian, FT, Irish Independent, Irish Examiner, Sunday Independent, Economist, Big Issue, Daily Telegraph, Irish Timesand and Waterstones'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.'and OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianismand 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, Larry, a trade unionist.and Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.and Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winningand noveland is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.and 'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine - what if this was me?'and FTand