Nesting - Longlisted for Women s Prize for Fiction 2025; tender, soaring debut

‘O’Donnell turns the idea of the domestic novel inside out … not just riveting and deeply humane but radical, too ''

About the author

Roisín O'Donnell is an award-winning Irish author. She won the prize for Short Story of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards in 2018, and was shortlisted for the same prize in 2022. She is the author of the story collection Wild Quiet, which was longlisted for the Edge Hill Short Story Prize and shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award. Her short fiction has featured in The Stinging Fly, The Tangerine, the Irish Times and many other places. Other stories have been selected for major anthologies such as The Long Gaze Back, and have featured on RTÉ Radio. Nesting is her first novel. She lives near Dublin with her two children.  

Product details

• Authors: Roisin O'Donnell, O'Donnell Roisin
• Publisher: Scribner UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 29.01.2026
• EAN: 9781398528567
• ISBN: 978-1-398-52856-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary