PROPHET SONG : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, ITS PAUL LYNCHS PROPHET SONG... BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING. OBSERVERThe explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Irelands newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling. How far will she go to save her family? And what - or who - is she willing to leave behind?Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mothers fight to hold her family together. A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine - what if this was me? FT