Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller
Donal Ryan
Winner of the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020
Longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award
'You have to truly love people to write like this' RACHEL JOYCE
'One of the greatest novels of this century' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
'Gorgeously wrought' GUARDIAN
In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears.
Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again.
Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will change the course of her family's life forever.
Beautiful and devastating, this exploration of loss, alienation and the redemptive power of love reaffirms Donal Ryan as one of the most talented and empathetic writers at work today.
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'Outstanding ... Tender and beautifully written' INDEPENDENT
'All the beauty and sorrow of life can be found in these pages' KATHLEEN MACMAHON
'Exquisite . . . Beautiful' ANNE GRIFFIN, author of WHEN ALL IS SAID
'Ryan gathers together the fragments of broken lives and makes us something new and beautiful from them' RÓNÁN HESSION, author of LEONARD AND HUNGRY PAUL
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Reviews for Strange Flowers: The Number One Bestseller
Guardian
Endlessly surprising and incredibly moving
David Nicholls
A triumph ... Ryan slowly and beautifully reveals the way that even broken people can open the door fully to the truth of themselves
Independent, Best Books of 2020
His moving story of love and loss deserves to win a host of awards. It's an outstanding read
Sunday Express
I think you have to truly love people to write like this
Rachel Joyce
A triumph of quiet but devastating power, by some distance the best novel I've read so far this year
Joseph O'Connor A big-hearted, beautiful work of art, full of truth and intensity
Kit de Waal
Classic Ryan; poignant and atmospheric storytelling ... quiet but intermittently explosive
Observer
I knew Donal Ryan's latest would be good and I was right - it's a risky act of imagination that works, and the sentences are as beautiful as ever
Sarah Moss
The Times
The lyricism of Ryan's prose, laced with compassion, is astonishing
Best Irish Novels of the Year
Irish Independent