Wild Houses
ISBN: 9780224099851
Author : Colin Barrett
Published: 2024
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Number of pages: 272
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 222×143
Author : Colin Barrett
Published: 2024
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
Number of pages: 272
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 222×143
Description
**One of the Observer's Debut Novels of 2024**A small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybody’s lives...'Strange and beautiful... A book to live inside'SALLY ROONEY, author of Normal People'A gift of true storytelling... Barrett's talent burns up the page' ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The Wren'A wonder... A tale for the ages'JON MCGREGOR, author of Reservoir 13As Ballina prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer, Cillian English, and County Mayo's enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.When the reclusive Dev answers his door on Friday night he finds Doll - Cillian's teenage brother - in the clutches of Gabe and Sketch. Jostled by his nefarious cousins and goaded by his dead mother's dog, Dev is drawn headlong into the Ferdias' revenge fantasy.Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Nicky can't shake the feeling something bad has happened to her boyfriend Doll. Hungover, reeling from a fractious Friday night and plagued by ghosts of her own, Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save Doll, even as she questions her future in Ballina.
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