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All Summer by Claire Kilroy: ‘A compelling read. The surprises are real and yet so subtly tracked . . . It’s a thriller, a confession and a love story framed by a meditation on the arts.’ (Margaret Reynolds, The Times)
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Summary
**SOLDIER SAILOR – THE NEW NOVEL BY CLAIRE KILROY – IS AVAILABLE NOW**
‘Compelling.’ The Times
‘Written with such verve and confidence . . . impossible not to enjoy.’ 5* reader review
‘This is my favourite book.’ 5* reader review
Anna Hunt has lost her memory and is on the run. From who and what she is unsure, but trapped in the present she seems certain of only one thing – she is somehow linked to the stolen painting currently being restored in the National Gallery. In a wonderfully unsettling first novel, Claire Kilroy manages to combine beautiful, poetic prose with the menacing atmosphere of a thriller as she explores themes of memory, violence, art and escape.
PRAISE FOR SOLDIER SAILOR:
‘Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.’ DAVID NICHOLLS
‘Astonishing.’ Observer
‘So powerful.’ MONICA ALI
‘Exceptionally good [it] sizzles and crackles with life.’ The Times
‘A huge, small book.’ ANNE ENRIGHT
‘I lived and breathed beside her narrator. A furious, muffled shout of a book.’ DAISY JOHNSON
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Claire Kilroy’s debut novel All Summer was described in The Times as ‘compelling … a thriller, a confession and a love story framed by a meditation on the arts’, and was awarded the 2004 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Her second novel, Tenderwire was shortlisted for the 2007 Irish Novel of the Year and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award.…
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