The Wren, The Wren: The Booker Prize-winning author

"The Wren" is a novel by Sally Rooney that was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2024 and won the Writers' Prize for Fiction 2024. It is a story about the love that can unite us and the individual acts that threaten this bond, and it is considered to be Anne Enright's best work yet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 25 April 2024
Publisher: Vintage Publishing

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024


WINNER OF THE WRITERS PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024


Carmel had been alone all her life. The baby knew this. They looked at each other, and all of time was there. The baby knew how vast her mother's loneliness had been.


'A magnificent novel' Sally Rooney


Nell is a young woman with adventure on her mind. As she sets out into the world, she finds her family history hard to escape. For her mother, Carmel, Nell's leaving home opens a space in her heart, where the turmoil of a lifetime begins to churn. Over them both falls the long shadow of Carmel's famous father, an Irish poet of beautiful words and brutal actions.


From our greatest chronicler of family life, The Wren, The Wren is a story of the love that can unite us, and the individual acts that threaten this vital bond.


'A triumph... treasure it' SUNDAY TIMES


'One of the great living writers on the subject of family' NEW YORK TIMES


'A must-read' MARGARET ATWOOD (on Twitter)


'Might just be Anne Enright's best yet' LOUISE KENNEDY


*A Sunday Times, Observer, Guardian, TLS, Harper's Bazaar, New Statesman, The New Yorker, Time, and Washington Post Book of the Year*

Weight: 204g
Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529922905