Prophet Song: WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

Winner of the Booker Prize 2023\r\n\r\nOn a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother of four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.\r\n\r\nIreland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.\r\n\r\nHow far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?\r\n\r\nExhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.\r\n\r\n2023, Booker Prize, Winner\r\n\r\n2023, An Post Irish Book Awards Novel of the Year, Short-listed\r\n\r\n2025, Dublin Literary Award, Long-listed\r\n