THE BOOK
HEART, BE AT PEACE
BY DONAL RYAN
Heart be at Peace is a novel told through twenty-one voices, set in a small town in rural Ireland in 2019. The boom and bust years of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ have passed, but now a new menace threatens the town. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back against an enemy none of them can touch, tearing at the very heart of the community.
DONAL RYAN
Donal Ryan is an award-winning author from Nenagh, County Tipperary, whose work has been published in over twenty languages to major critical acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018, and won the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick.
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