The Green Road
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Publisher Description
Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2016
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015
Hanna, Dan, Constance and Emmet return to the west coast of Ireland for a final family Christmas in the home their mother is about to sell. As the feast turns to near painful comedy, a last, desperate act from Rosaleen - a woman who doesn't quite know how to love her children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.
**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This rich, thought-provoking novel centres on petulant ageing Irish matriarch Rosaleen and her four adult children. Author Anne Enright—who won the 2007 Man Booker Prize for The Gathering—tells each character’s story in perfect capsule episodes: Dan in New York during the AIDS crisis, Emmet doing relief work in Africa, Hanna struggling with a new baby, Constance dealing with a medical scare and Rosaleen herself deciding to sell the family home. As this wonderfully imperfect, achingly real group reunite for Christmas, Enright skillfully portrays their disappointments, grudges and intimacies. The Green Road is a bittersweet and beautiful read.
