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ISBN-10: 1609458001
ISBN-13: 9781609458003
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publish Date: 10/11/2022
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.30" W, 1.00" H

The Slowworm’s Song

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Overview

From Costa Award-winning and Booker Prize-shortlisted author Andrew Miller comes a tender tale of guilt, trust, and a father’s yearning to atone.

A harmless-looking letter drops onto the doormat in Stephen Rose’s Somerset home like an unexploded bomb. It is a summons to an inquiry in Belfast, asking him to give testimony about his participation in a disastrous event during the Troubles-one he has long worked to forget.

An ailing ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic, Stephen has just begun to build a fragile bond with Maggie, the adult daughter he barely knows. For two years, he has worked hard to earn her trust, but the tragedy of what occurred back in the summer of 1982 has the power to destroy their new relationship. To buy time, he decides to write her an account of his life. Part explanation, part confession, it is also a love letter to Maggie.

When the moment comes that he must face what happened in Belfast that summer, the consequences are devastating–but ultimately liberating. Giving voice to those little heard in the literature of the Irish Troubles, The Slowworm’s Song is an unforgettable story about a man who learns that the only way back from the underworld is up.

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PRAISE FOR NOW WE SHALL BE ENTIRELY FREE


"Riveting in its alertness to wonder and unpredictability."–Charles McGrath, The New York Times Book Review


"Mr. Miller strikes an impressive balance between adventure and atmosphere... Freedom arrives in this lush and satisfying novel not by way of escape but from a final confrontation with the truth."–Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal


"This is a completely engrossing novel, rich in the details and feeling for a vanished age, deft in character portraits, and almost unbearably suspenseful."–Katharine A. Powers, The Barnes and Noble Review


"Miller paints a richly detailed portrait of a society in some ways familiar, in others impossibly strange."–Financial Times


"It's a wonder Andrew Miller is not a household name...his wry dialogue is a particular treat, but he can also write with a lovely, soulful stillness."–Johanna Thomas-Corr, The Observer


"His writing is vivid, precise, and constantly surprising. It reads easily, suspends life until it is read and is a source of wonder and delight"–Hilary Mantel, Sunday Times


"There is only one Andrew Miller. Historical or otherwise, Now We Shall Be Entirely Free is fiction – storytelling – at its best."–The Spectator


"For the past two decades, Miller has been telling stories that fuse imagination and reality to illuminate the lives of his characters. In his new novel, he succeeds in creating an involving, suspenseful drama and a moving portrait of a man in search of redemption."Times UK


"Andrew Miller is at the top of his game with Now We Shall Be Entirely Free. ... He has a way with words that delights, surprises and enthralls."Sunday Express


PRAISE FOR PURE


"Andrew Miller is another Hilary Mantel."–The New York Times


"Both a ripping yarn and a meditation on absence, this novel is a four-square adventure story that displays all the author's customary skill."–Guardian


"Brilliance distilled."Telegraph

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Details

ISBN-10: 1609458001
ISBN-13: 9781609458003
Publisher: Europa Editions
Publish Date: 10/11/2022
Dimensions: 8.20" L, 5.30" W, 1.00" H
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