The Spinning Heart

THE STUNNING FIRST NOVEL BY THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF HEART BE AT PEACE AND WHERE ARE THE KINGS

“My father still lives back the road past the weir in the cottage I was reared in. I go there every day to see is he dead and every day he lets me down. He hasn’t yet missed a day of letting me down.”

Now winner of six Irish Book Awards and a No.1 bestselling author, Donal Ryan exploded on to the literary scene with his stunning debut, set in the aftermath of Ireland’s financial collapse. When dangerous tensions surface in a small Irish town, the characters face a battle between their public persona and inner desires. Told through a chorus of twenty-one unique voices, each struggling to tell their own kind of truth, a single authentic tale unfolds.

The Spinning Heart speaks for contemporary Ireland like no other novel. Wry, vulnerable, all-too human, it captures the language and spirit of rural Ireland and, with uncanny perception, articulates the words and thoughts of a generation.

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Discover Donal Ryans new novel, WHERE ARE THE KINGS, out now.

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Filled with light and shade, love and tragedy ... if it was a song you could sing it ANNE ENRIGHT

Donal Ryan is the real deal ... a brilliantly realised, utterly resonant state-of-the-nation landscapeSUNDAY INDEPENDENT

I cant imagine a more original, more perceptive or more passionate work than this. Outstanding JOHN BOYNE

Its furious, its moving, its darkly funny, it punches you right in the gutNEW YORK TIMES

Funny, moving and beautifully written EDNA OBRIEN

The unambiguous announcement of a genuine and apparently fully-formed new talent FINANCIAL TIMES