Annie Dunne

Proof copy. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 228. B/w pictorial wraps.

Signed by Author to title page.

Author's fourth novel, reviving a minor character from his 1995 play, The Steward of Christendom, which was loosely based on Barry's great-grandfather, Thomas Dunne, a former chief superintendent of the Dublin Metropolitan Police. This time the focus falls on Dunne's offspring, Auntie Annie, who squats on her cousin Sarah's farm in late 1950s Co. Wicklow, while worrying that she would be left homeless once again after a local man with his eye on the farm starts wooing Sarah.

Twice shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for A Long Long Way (2005) and The Secret Scripture (2008), the latter won the 2008 Costa Book of the Year, as did Days Without End in 2017, which made Barry the first novelist to win the prestigious prize twice. "Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods – rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry – fuel this fine novel." –The New York Times Book Review