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WILD HOUSES - COLIN BARRETT KARTONIERT (TB)

**One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024**A small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild
weekend to change everybody's lives... 'Sublime... [Wild Houses is] a thrillingly moreish
novel... and held me captive until the very last page' Sunday Times'Strange and beautiful... A
book to live inside' SALLY ROONEY  author of Normal People'A gift of true storytelling...
Barrett's talent burns up the page' ANNE ENRIGHT  author of The Wren  The WrenAs Ballina
prepares for its biggest weekend of the year  the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer
Cillian English  and County Mayo's enforcers  Gabe and Sketch Ferdia  spills over into violence
and an ugly ultimatum.When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll -
Cillian's teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious
cousins and goaded by his dead mother's dog  Dev is drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge
fantasy.Meanwhile  seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened
to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover  reeling from a fractious Friday night and plagued by ghosts of
her own  Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll  even as she questions her future in
Ballina.'This nastily slow-burn chiller is shaping up to be one of the novels of the year'
Daily Mail  **Books to Look Out For 2024**

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