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The Green Road
The Green Road
paperback
Published:
7 January, 2016
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Description
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
Prizes
Winner of Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards - Eason Novel of the Year 2015 (UK),Winner of Kerry Group Novel of the Year 2016 (UK),Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2016 (UK),Short-listed for Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK),Short-listed for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2017 (UK),Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK)
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780099539797 |
| ISBN10 | 0099539799 |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 225 g |
| Product Dimensions | 130 x 197 x 20 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Vintage Publishing |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
Moving read * Western Morning News *
The Green Road takes a familiar story, the troubled family reunion, and makes it feel fresh and new... wise, funny, moving.' * Observer *
Old tensions simmer to a boil in this witty, poetic contender for 2015’s Costa Novel of The Year. * Daily Mail *
[It] is engaging, perceptive and often very funny. * Tablet *
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Author's Bio
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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.