Experts in a Dying Field

'Offbeat, ironic, humane and hilarious, Experts in a Dying Field is an earworm you’ll be humming along to for a long time to come.' PAUL MURRAY 'A wonderfully evocative novel from a major storytelling talent.’ JOSEPH O'CONNOR ‘Just pure joy and pure heartbreak and GENUINE LAUGHS all the way through. I cried a few times too.’ MARINA HYDE --- The Heathens thought of themselves as 'the 1000th best band of all time'. Then their tour van crashed, and one of their members died. Twenty years later, weird things are happening in Dublin, bringing the surviving members of the band together in ways none of them could have anticipated and lifting the lid on mysteries from their shared past. Experts in a Dying Field is a gloriously sharp, witty and surprising novel about friendship, secrets, the strange workings of grief and guilt, and the joyful alchemy of music, from a writer with a unique ability to access humour and deep emotion. --- 'Hums with life, told with the rigour and brilliance of one of Ireland’s finest minds. As profound as it is hilarious, Freyne’s voice is unmistakable: clever, tender, and original. Read it once, then read it again. Then go to the pub.’ ELAINE FEENEY ‘A paean to friendship, forgiveness and the power of music, told with the blend of empathy and wit that is Freyne's trademark. I loved this book’ LOUISE KENNEDY ‘Brilliantly captures the chaos and camaraderie of band culture’ SINÉAD GLEESON ‘A lovely, tender and funny book, full of empathy and scruffy wisdom’ MARK O'CONNELL ‘In essence this novel is a love song to music and all of its transformative magical powers, sung in Freyne's inimitable style. His debut has inherited the beloved DNA of his personal essays but created something entirely new. This is one for the dreamers.