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The children of Rosaleen Madigan leave the west of Ireland for lives in Dublin, New York and various third-world towns. In her early old age, Rosaleen announces that shes selling the family home and dividing the proceeds, and her adult children return for one last Christmas. From the Booker Prize winning author of THE GATHERING comes a novel of fracture and family, selfishness and compassion.

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Shortlisted for the Baileys Women´s Prize for Fiction 2016
Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award
Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the Irish Novel of the Year 2015
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 children - forces them to confront the weight of family ties and the road that brought them home.

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

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Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday´s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and six novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gáis Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature.

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