The Green Road

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Confirms her as one of the most significant writers of her generation.... A master. She has certainly produced a masterly work. The Green Road is true and rueful, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans. Enright is a shape-shifter who gets into the nerve centres of her creations; the power of her prose lies in its absence of ego. The Green Road is a devastating novel about home and how savage a place it can be. This novel should confirm Enright’s status as one of our (their?) greatest living novelists. I hope she can be persuaded to do a sequel. [A] brilliant, devastating, radical novel. ‘[Enright] is that rare thing: a very, very good writer… I settled into the book in a way I hadn’t done for weeks; the world of it seemed to me more transfixingly real than anything else, for the time I was reading it. When a writer of Enright’s quality pays such attention to the way that things really are, all we can do is pay rapt attention back. Enright has written yet another wise and sophisticated novel... Simple and brilliant. You can’t even really call this ‘brave’ writing, because what makes Enright so good is the feeling that she was never afraid in the first place Superb. An intense and thought-provoking read about family, behaviour and consequences… Will resonate long after the final page. Enright is a writer with a wonderful and enviable lightness of touch… This is a wholly delightful novel, and a wise one. Expand reviews