A family epic about love and disappointment, condensed and clarified through the remarkable lens of Anne Enright's unblinking eye
The Green Road
Written by Anne Enright
- Longlisted
- The Man Booker Prize 2015
- Published by Jonathan Cape
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Anne Enright’s story of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion - a novel about the gaps in the human heart and how we learn to fill them
The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives they never could have imagined in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.
Anne Enright
Anne Enright has written two collections of stories, one book of non-fiction and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the Booker Prize 2007
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