Wild Houses: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024

Name: Wild Houses: Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2024
Rating: 4.400000095367432 (5 reviews)

Colin Barrett

Jan 2024 · Random House

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**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

**WINNER OF THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2024**

‘Beautiful...brings to life an entire world’ SALLY ROONEY

‘Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel’ SUNDAY TIMES

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It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change – the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author.

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
SHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR
LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025

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‘A whole world is captured for the reader’ Colm Tóibín

‘As sharp, funny and bitingly bittersweet as life’ Booker Judges, 2024

‘A gift of true storytelling’ Anne Enright

‘A heartbreaker of a debut’ New York Times

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4.4

5 reviews

john rogers

January 10, 2025

read it in one! good yarn

About the author

Colin Barrett grew up in County Mayo, Ireland. His stories have been published in the Stinging Fly, Granta, Harper's and the New Yorker. His first book, the short story collection Young Skins, won the Guardian First Book Award, the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. His second collection, Homesickness, made the New York Times 100 Notable Books of the Year and was a Book of the Year in Oprah Daily and the Irish Times.

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