Winner of the Booker Prize 2023.
Lynch pulls off feats of language that are stunning to witness... This is a triumph of emotional storytelling, bracing and brave - Esi Edugyan, Chair of Judges, The Booker Prize 2023
If there was ever a crucial book for our current times, it's Paul Lynch's Prophet Song... A brilliantly haunting novel - Observer
The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism
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 when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
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.