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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Moving read * Western Morning News * The Green Road takes a familiar story, the troubled family reunion, and makes it feel fresh and new... wise, funny, moving.' * Observer * Old tensions simmer to a boil in this witty, poetic contender for 2015s Costa Novel of The Year. * Daily Mail * [ It] is engaging, perceptive and often very funny. * Tablet *
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Winner of Bord G is Energy Irish Book Awards - Eason Novel of the Year 2015 (UK) and Kerry Group Novel of the Year 2016 (UK). Short-listed for Costa Novel Award 2016 (UK) and Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction 2016 (UK) and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2017 (UK). Long-listed for Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2015 (UK).A book about family, selfishness and compassion on Ireland's Atlantic coast, from the Booker Prize-winner. Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa Novel Award Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize
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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other award include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers' Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.
