Old God's time : a novel / Sebastian Barry.
From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secretsRetired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with.His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom's family, his wife June, and their two children?Old God's Time is a beautiful, haunting novel in which everything is not quite what it seems--a novel about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive us.
Record details
- ISBN: 9798212225458
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (08 hr., 37 min., 20 sec.)) : digital
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: [Ashland] : Blackstone Publishing, 2023.
Content descriptions
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Stephen Hogan. |
Source of Description Note: | Online resource; title from title details screen (OverDrive, viewed March 24, 2023). |
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Genre: | Psychological fiction. Novels. Audiobooks. |