Heart, Be at Peace: Winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction 2025 and the Irish Book of the Year

The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island 'Beautiful...a book full of love and hope , more needed in these days than ever' Kit de Waal 'I am blown away by the ambition and scope of this exquisite piece of writing... sublime in both its sentiment and beauty' Rachel Joyce Some things can send a heart spinning; others will crack it in two... In a small town in rural Ireland, the local people have weathered the storms of economic collapse and are looking towards the future. The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemi ngly lulled, and although the town bears the marks of its history, new stories are unfolding. But a fresh menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch... Told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace is a heartfelt, lyrical novel that can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan's multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted 'The Irish Book of the Decade'. ***** PRAISE FOR DONAL RYAN: 'One of the finest novelists writing today.' RACHEL JOYCE 'His paragraphs are unnoticeably beautiful , his heart always on show' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving ' DAVID NICHOLLS 'A life-enhancing talent' SEBASTIAN BARRY 'I would struggle to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal Ryan' LOUISE O'NEILL ' Beautiful, compassionate ...Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'Beautifully poised, sad, poetic and human.... I loved every single line .' IAN RANKIN 'The prose drips like honey off a spoon' SUNDAY TIMES EAN: 9781529940138 Farbverschnitt: Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. Erscheinungsjahr: 08.08.2024 Autoren: Ryan, Donal Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: 195 Themenüberschrift: FICTION / Literary Keyword: literary fiction; saga; best selling books; book club; books for women; irish authors; fiction books for women paperback; top selling books for women; good books for women; coming of age; kindle books bestsellers; irish books; booker prize winners; historical fiction books paperback; prize winning books; award winning books; contemporary fiction; paperback books for women; irish books for adults; costa book awards; irish authors books for women; irish fiction; irish authors kindle books Fachschema: Englische Bücher / Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Irische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~Irland / Roman, Erzählung~Generationenromane - Familiensagas Fachkategorie: Familienleben~Generationenromane, Familiensagas~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Psychologisches Innenleben~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Raumwahrnehmung Imprint-Titels: Doubleday Länge: 211 mm Breite: 136 mm Höhe: 20 mm