Buckeye
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publishing:2nd Sep '25
£14.99
This title is due to be published on 2nd September, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Propelled by an irresistible cast of characters, Buckeye is a warm, funny and emotionally affecting novel about marriage and family, connection and community, set in a small town in the American Midwest
‘Funny and tender ... Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers’ ANN PATCHETT
‘I love this novel with my entire heart … Wise and heartbreaking’ ANN NAPOLITANO
In the small Ohio town of Bonhomie, Cal Jenkins and Margaret Salt come together in a stolen moment of passion, sparked in the exuberant aftermath of the Allied victory in Europe. Cal’s wife, Becky, has a spiritual gift: she is a seer who can conjure the dead, helping families connect with those whom they’ve lost. Margaret’s husband, Felix, is serving on a Navy cargo ship; she will soon learn that he may have perished in a predawn attack in the Philippine Sea.
But in a small town, nothing stays buried forever, and the consequences of that encounter will ripple through the next generation of both families, compelling them to re-examine who they thought they were – and what the future might hold.
Full of compassion, humour and charm, Buckeye is a dazzling portrait of an unforgettable community: of hopes and fears, loves and losses, and above all an indomitable longing for connection.
A glorious sweep of a novel, full of love and war and the perilous intimacies of small town life. It’sfunny and tender, realistic and strange. Patrick Ryan has long been one of my favourite writers. I have a feeling that with this book he’s going to be everyone's favourite writer -- Ann Patchett
I love this novel with my entire heart. Patrick Ryan has created a world, and characters, that exist inside me now, and as a reader that is my deepest joy. Buckeye tells the story of two families across sixty years of American history; the novel is wise and heartbreaking and full of wonderful characters who struggle across decades – as we all do – to live as their whole selves. I could not recommend this book more highly -- Ann Napolitano
Offers just about everything I look for in a great story: a vivid setting, historical sweep, rich characters who break your heart even as they make you laugh - and all of this in abundance -- Richard Russo, author of EMPIRE FALLS and the NORTH BATH trilogy
A small-town novel of epic proportions, full of unforgettable characters and thorny human dilemmas. Patrick Ryan conjures a vanished America with uncanny skill, and writes with deep insight and lyrical intelligence about war and adultery, the mysteries of sexuality and family life, and the strange paths we have to travel to forgive – or at least begin to understand – the people who’ve hurt us the most. This is a novel to settle in with, a world unto itself -- Tom Perrotta, author of THE LEFTOEVERS, ELECTION and TRACY FLICK CAN'T WIN
ISBN: 9781526689320
Dimensions: unknown
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464 pages