Heart, Be at Peace

Donal Ryan author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Transworld Publishers Ltd

Published:8th Aug '24

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The stunning new novel from the Booker Prize-listed, bestselling author of Strange Flowers and The Queen of Dirt Island; shortlisted for the An Post Book of the Year and Author of the Year

'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 seemingly 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, TheSpinning 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

An astute mosaic. Add to that Ryan’s gift for capturing the foolishness and fakery of human nature and the lyrical power of Irish small-town gossip . . . and you have a portrait of modern Ireland through a series of hard minds and sometimes kind hearts * Independent *
Ryan dives deep into his characters’ hopes and grievances, drawing out their voices with such precision that you can almost hear their breath between words . . . With any luck we will be back in this small place of vast intrigue to pick up with its people again a decade from now. * Financial Times *
[The novel is] a kind of simulacrum of life, as if we have been landed in this village, have a chance to overhear its inhabitants’ most private thoughts, move from one house to another, sit in the pub, discover who believes who is to blame for what, and what can be excused or forgiven * Guardian *
This beautiful and moving novel, told in 21 voices, serves up heartbreak and hope in equal measure. * The Lady *
It's all there. Donal’s trademark big heart and understanding of what it is to be human, all of it on the page and somehow beyond it. I loved it from the first page to the last … there are more moments of genius in this book than I care to mention. Beautiful ... a book full of love and hope, more needed in these days than ever. * Kit de Waal, author of My Name is Leon *

ISBN: 9780857525239

Dimensions: 224mm x 143mm x 21mm

Weight: 315g

208 pages