Claire Keegan is pitch-perfect in this novella about a mother and baby home and one man’s dilemma about whether to break the wall of silence around it
This is the winner of the Booker Prize 2022 - and the other 5 books on the shortlist
‘The story had been stirring in me for most of my life’: How I wrote a Booker-shortlisted novel
Martina Devlin
October 20, 2021
How do you make a stand against the wilful blindness of your community? Or to put it another way: “Was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there?”