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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**
‘Sublime… A thrillingly moreish novel’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Beautiful…brings to life an entire world’ SALLY ROONEY
It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change.
In Ballina, 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. Soon the reclusive Dev and Cillian’s teenage brother Doll are drawn headlong into the Ferdias’ revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, Doll’s girlfriend Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save him.
Life in this ordinary town will never be the same again…
AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST 2024
‘A whole world is captured for the reader’
COLM TOIBIN, 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