Soldier Sailor: Longlisted For Women's Prize For Fiction 2024

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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR FICTION

The Times Novel of the Year
And a Guardian, FT, Economist, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Irish Independent and Independent Book of the Year

One of the finest novels published this year. The Sunday Times
I could not put it down. ANNE ENRIGHT
It s very moving, also very funny. PAUL MURRAY
My favourite book I ve read this year. PANDORA SYKES
I lived and breathed beside her narrator. DAISY JOHNSON

In one of the most acclaimed novels of the year, her first in over a decade, Claire Kilroy takes us deep into the mind of her unforgettable heroine.

Exploring the clash of fierce love for a new life with a seismic change in identity, she vividly realises the tumultuous emotions of a new mother. As her marriage strains and she struggles with questions of love, autonomy creativity and the passing of time, an old friend makes a welcome return - but can he really offer a lifeline to the woman she used to be?

Readers adore Soldier Sailor:

***** About as perfect a piece of writing as you ll find.
***** Unbearably tense and frequently hilarious.
***** An entirely different voltage to anything I ve read ... she somehow manages to verbalise *exactly* the feelings and thoughts I, certainly, had at points when I was a young mother
***** This story touched me on such a visceral level.
***** I was held captive by this novel ... an utterly absorbing depiction of motherhood
***** I loved this book. Any woman, with or without children, will see themselves mirrored in this narrative
***** An excellent, interesting and rather unforgettable creation.

About the Author

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. It was followed, in 2009, by the highly acclaimed novel, All Names Have Been Changed. Educated at Trinity College, she lives in Dublin.