All We Shall Know

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The searing novel from the author of The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and From a Low and Quiet Sea From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea 'Poetic, powerful and heart-rending' The Times 'An exquisite account of womanhood, friendship, prejudice and tradition that is both intimate in scale and awesome in achievement' Irish Independent Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She can't tell her father yet because he's a good man and this could break him. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming - larger by the day - while the past won't let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her. It's a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody's life. 'A joy to read, for all that it breaks your heart' Independent 'One of the finest writers working in Ireland today ... worthy of Greek Drama' Guardian 'A stunning piece of work, utterly truthful and emotionally powerful' Joseph O'Connor 'Work of genius ... I was entranced by it. Buckled by it' Sebastian Barry

Donal Ryan is from Nenagh in County Tipperary. His first three novels, The Spinning Heart, The Thing About December and All We Shall Know, and his short story collection A Slanting of the Sun, have all been published to major acclaim. The Spinning Heart won the Guardian First Book Award, the EU Prize for Literature (Ireland), and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards; it was shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Desmond Elliott Prize, and was voted 'Irish Book of the Decade'. His fourth novel, From a Low and Quiet Sea, was longlisted for Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2018. A former civil servant, Donal lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and their two children just outside Limerick City.

Poetic, powerful and heart-rending * The Times * A joy to read, for all that it breaks your heart * Independent * One of the finest writers working in Ireland today ... worthy of Greek drama * Guardian * An exquisite account of womanhood, friendship, prejudice and tradition that is both intimate in scale and awesome in achievement * Irish Independent * Work of genius ... I was entranced by it. Buckled by it. -- Sebastian Barry