The Green Road

Author Anne Enright
Narrator Caroline Lennon
Publisher Random House
Publish Date 20 August 2020
Run Time 9 hours and 38 minutes
Format Audio
Genre Family life fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Love and relationships.

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Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize

**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner.

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 own children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.

© Anne Enright 2015 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

Critics Review

Confirms her as one of the most significant writers of her generation.... A master. She has certainly produced a masterly work.

Sunday Times

The Green Road is true and rueful, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans.

New Yorker

Enright is a shape-shifter who gets into the nerve centres of her creations; the power of her prose lies in its absence of ego. The Green Road is a devastating novel about home and how savage a place it can be.

New Statesman

This novel should confirm Enrightu2019s status as one of our (their?) greatest living novelists. I hope she can be persuaded to do a sequel.

The Times

[A] brilliant, devastating, radical novel.

Guardian

u2018[Enright] is that rare thing: a very, very good writeru2026 I settled into the book in a way I hadnu2019t done for weeks; the world of it seemed to me more transfixingly real than anything else, for the time I was reading it. When a writer of Enrightu2019s quality pays such attention to the way that things really are, all we can do is pay rapt attention back.

Independent On Sunday

Enright has written yet another wise and sophisticated novel... Simple and brilliant. You canu2019t even really call this u2018braveu2019 writing, because what makes Enright so good is the feeling that she was never afraid in the first place

Literary Review

Superb.

London Review of Books

An intense and thought-provoking read about family, behaviour and consequencesu2026 Will resonate long after the final page.

Stylist

Enright is a writer with a wonderful and enviable lightness of touchu2026 This is a wholly delightful novel, and a wise one.

Scotsman

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