EAN: 9780224101660

WILD HOUSES - COLIN BARRETT KARTONIERT (TB)

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**   'Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel' SUNDAY
TIMES    'Beautiful...brings to life an entire world' SALLY ROONEY   A small-town feud. A
madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybody's lives...   As 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.   AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST 2024    'A whole world...is captured for the reader'
COLM TÓIBÍN  author of Long Island    'One of the novels of the year'  DAILY MAIL    'A gift of
true storytelling...Barrett's talent burns up the page'  ANNE ENRIGHT  author of The Wren  The
Wren    'A heartbreaker of a debut novel'  NEW YORK TIMES

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