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**AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW** TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR ''Wonderfully alive. . . an unforgettable novel from one of our finest writers.'' DOUGLAS STUART ''His work reminds us how much we need these rare gifts of the natural storyteller.'' TESSA HADLEY ''Have you ever been the custodian of a story no one else believed?'' ''Oh yes,'' he said. ''You have?'' ''Yes,'' he said. ''Then I can tell you.'' Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return, of his family, his beloved wife June and their two children. But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one which Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past. A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old God''s Time is about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive of us.
About the author
Sebastian Barry was born in Dublin in 1955. The 2018-21 Laureate for Irish Fiction, his novels have twice won the Costa Book of the Year award, the Independent Booksellers Award and the Walter Scott Prize. He had two consecutive novels shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,
A Long Long Way (2005) and the top ten bestseller
The Secret Scripture (2008), and has also won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Prize, the Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He lives in County Wicklow.
Report
'There is a kind of writing so rare and accomplished that it seems to erase the very nuts and bolts of its own construction. Reading it can produce an experience that feels close to miraculous ... I don't expect to read anything as moving for many years.' Guardian
