Prophet Song

Winner of The Booker Prize 2023
A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author.

«I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years. The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.» - Colum McCann

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 Ireland’s 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 mother’s fight to hold her family together.