TY - BOOK AU - Lynch, Paul TI - Prophet Song SN - 9780861546862 (pbk) U1 - 823.92 PY - 2023/// CY - London PB - OneWorld KW - Fiction KW - Literary Fiction KW - Literature N1 - https://oneworld-publications.com/work/prophet-song N2 - "‘IF THERE WAS EVER A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES, IT’S PAUL LYNCH’S PROPHET SONG… BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.’ OBSERVER The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling." ER -