Prophet Song - Paul Lynch

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’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, Larry, 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. Soon, she must decide just how far she is willing to go to keep her family safe.

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Paul Lynch's Booker Prize-winning novel is a devastating vision of a country falling apart and a moving portrait of the resilience of the human spirit when faced with the darkest of times.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023. WINNER OF THE 2024 DAYTON LITERARY PEACE PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023. SHORTLISTED FOR THE STREGA EUROPEAN PRIZE. SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD.