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Wild Houses

by Colin Barrett

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 BOOKER PRIZE • Longlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award • One of The Guardian’s Best Books of the Summer and Best Fiction of 2024 • One of the Globe and Mail's most anticipated books of 2024 • Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New York Times From the award-winning writer of Homesickness and Young Skins, a darkly funny and deeply moving debut novel about crimes of desperation, dreams abandoned, and small-town secrets that won’t stay buried. As Ballina in the west of Ireland prepares for its biggest weekend of the year, the simmering feud between small-time dealer Cillian English and County Mayo's fraternal enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum.…

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