**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024** Sublime... A thrillingly moreish novel´ SUNDAY TIMES Beautiful...brings to life an entire world´ SALLY ROONEYA small-town feud. A madcap kidnapping. A wild weekend to change everybody´s lives...As 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.AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST 2024 A whole world...is captured for the reader´ COLM TÓIBÍN, author of Long Island One of the novels of the year´ DAILY MAIL A gift of true storytelling...Barrett´s talent burns up the page´ANNE ENRIGHT, author of The Wren, The Wren A heartbreaker of a debut novel´ NEW YORK TIMES
