Description
Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy no one can touch…A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, Heart, be at Peace can be read independently, or as a companion to Donal Ryan’s multi-award-winning novel, The Spinning Heart, voted ‘The Irish Book of the Decade’.
PRAISE FOR DONAL RYAN:
‘Beautiful, compassionate … Donal Ryan at his inimitable best.’ MAGGIE O’FARRELL
‘One of the finest novelists writing today… a haunting, exquisite masterpiece.’ RACHEL JOYCE
‘The prose drips like honey off a spoon’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘Beautifully poised, sad, poetic and human….I loved every single line.’ IAN RANKIN
‘A generous mosaic of a novel about the staying power of love and pride and history and family’ COLUM McCANN
‘His paragraphs are unnoticeably beautiful, his heart always on show’ ANNE ENRIGHT
‘Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘A life-enhancing talent’ SEBASTIAN BARRY
‘I would struggle to think of any other Irish author working today who writes with as much compassion as Donal Ryan’ LOUISE O’NEILL