Old God's Time
“An attentive character study, an engrossing crime story, and an unsparing lament for Ireland itself.”
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice of the Week
Longlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secrets
Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with.
His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom's family, his wife June, and their two children?
Old God's Time is a beautiful, haunting novel in which everything is not quite what it seems-a novel about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive us.
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