Stone Kingdoms (37 page)

DAILY MAIL

‘A stealthily affecting novel, this could well give more famous names a run for their Booker money'

GQ MAGAZINE

THE
TRUTH COMMISSIONER

Shortlisted for the Irish Novel of the Year Award

Winner of the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Prize

‘Edgy and compelling ... yields moments of heart-shivering beauty ... A magnificent and important book'

Joseph O'Connor,
GUARDIAN

In a society trying to heal the scars of the past with the salve of truth and reconciliation, four men's lives become linked in a way they could never have imagined. Henry Stanfield, the newly arrived Truth Commissioner, Francis Gilroy, recently appointed government minister, retired detective James Fenton and father-to-be Danny share a secret from their past that threatens to destroy the lives they have painstakingly built in the present.

‘A fine, crafted novel, but it is also an important book ... He sets out to examine what it means to be alive – and does so in fictions that are subtle, understated, not without a hint of menace and always courageous'

Eileen Battersby,
IRISH TIMES

‘We're reminded that with writers like David Park, the novel can itself be a kind of truth commission'

NEW YORK TIMES

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