Description
The 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 Ireland newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. A 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 breath-taking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother fight to hold her family together. ‘A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine â what if this was me?
