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The Wren, The Wren
- Author
- Anne Enright
- Narrator
- various
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 31 August 2023
- Run Time
- 7 hours 40 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 5.0 (1 review)
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What to expect
Brought to you by Penguin.
Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024.
Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been.
Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.
This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A generational saga that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.
©2023 Anne Enright (P)2023 Penguin Audio
Critics Review
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The Wren, The Wren is a magnificent novel. Anne Enright's stylistic brilliance seems to put the reader directly in touch with her characters and the rich territory of their lives
Sally Rooney, author of NORMAL PEOPLE
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The Wren, The Wren may be her best book yet
Guardian, *Books of the Year*
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Wonderful… This deceptively modest novel is the kind of book that will work on you long after you have put it down
Sunday Times, *Books of the Year*
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These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright's best yet
Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses
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Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren is so good they named it twice, so good I read it twice – and read two different novels, because moral positions are incorrigibly plural in Enrightville
Observer, *Books of the Year*
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Gritty, sad, sly, riotous... Gem-packed language that fizzes like a sidewalk firecracker. A must-read
Margaret Atwood, author of THE HANDMAID'S TALE (via Twitter)
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The Wren, The Wren is Anne Enright at her lyrical, storytelling best
New Statesman, *Books of the Year*
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This is the golden age of Irish prose fiction. Of our many prodigiously talented novelist, few have the all-encompassing deftness of touch of Anne Enright
Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*
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One of my books of any year. It’s about womanhood, youth and that slow, painful, but joyous estrangement that emerges between mother and daughter as life runs its tumultuous course
Observer, *Books of the Year*
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A work of astounding ventriloquism and hard-won hope about women’s lives
Times Literary Supplement, *Books of the Year*
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Details
- Author
- Anne Enright
- Narrator
- various
- Duration
- 7 hours 40 minutes
- Release Date
- 31 August 2023
- ISBN
- 9781529915006
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Family life fiction / Stories about family, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Narrative theme: identity / belonging
- Rating
- 5.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 5.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024.Carmel had been alone all her life. She had been alone since she was twelve years old. The baby knew all this. They looked at each other; one life into another life, and the baby knew exactly how alone her mother had been.Nell - funny, brave and so much loved - is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. And across the generations falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.This is a meditation on love: spiritual, romantic, darkly sexual or genetic. A generational saga that traces the inheritance not just of trauma but also of wonder, it is a testament to the glorious resilience of women in the face of promises false and true. Above all, it is an exploration of the love between mother and daughter - sometimes fierce, often painful, but always transcendent.©2023 Anne Enright (P)2023 Penguin Audio
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