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Open, Heaven [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition]

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Description for Open, Heaven [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition] hardcover. This is a limited edition exclusive to Kennys with an essay only in this edition. It is signed and numbered by the author

TWO BOYS MEET. EVERYTHING CHANGES.
THE INSTANT IRISH TIMES BESTSELLER


‘An exquisite tale of first love’ SARAH PERRY, GUARDIAN
‘Heart-rending… Propulsive’ FINANCIAL TIMES
God’s Own Country meets HeartstopperBRANDON TAYLOR
‘I loved it... Beautiful’ FERDIA LENNON

On the cusp of adulthood, James dreams of another life far away from his small village. As he contends with the expectations of his family, his burgeoning desire – an ache for autonomy, tenderness and sex – threatens to unravel his shy exterior.

Then he meets Luke. Unkempt and handsome, charismatic and impulsive, he has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle on a nearby farm. Luke comes with a reputation for danger, but underneath his bravado lie anxieties and hopes of his own.

With the passing seasons, the two teenagers grow closer and the bond that emerges between them transforms their lives. James falls deeply for Luke, yet he is never sure of Luke’s true feelings. And as the end of summer nears, he has a choice to make – will he risk everything for the possibility of love?

* A Guardian, Irish Times and BBC Book for 2025 *

READERS LOVE OPEN, HEAVEN
‘My favourite book of the year’
‘Gorgeous. I was completely transported’
‘The intoxicating rush of first love. Five stars!’
‘Breathtakingly beautiful. A story that stays with you’
‘Heart-breaking but also triumphant. A must-read’
‘The most truthful novel about love
that I have read in a long time’


‘It made my heart hurt in the best ways’ HELEN MACDONALD

‘Hewitt writes with such tenderness and grace’ ANNE ENRIGHT

Open, Heaven does what the very best coming-of-age stories do’ MICHAEL MAGEE

‘A gorgeous ache of a novel’ COLIN WALSH

‘Seán Hewitt is the real deal’ BENJAMIN MYERS

Open, Heaven was an Irish top ten bestseller w/c 28 April 2025

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2025
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781787335196
SKU
9781787335196
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-172

About Seán Hewitt
Seán Hewitt was born in 1990. He is the author of two poetry collections, Tongues of Fire and Rapture’s Road, and a memoir, All Down Darkness Wide. He collaborated with the artist Luke Edward Hall on 300,000 Kisses: Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World. Hewitt has received the Laurel Prize and the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature and been shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. He lectures at Trinity College Dublin and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Reviews for Open, Heaven [Exclusive Kennys Signed Limited Edition]
An exquisite tale of first love . . . Hewitt is superb in his loving and acute descriptions of the natural world
SARAH PERRY
Guardian
Heart-rending . . . sensuous and decadent
Financial Times
A beautiful novel about how a first love can shape a whole life
HELEN MACDONALD, author of H is for Hawk A mature and complete debut novel . . . The central relationship occurs by light, sensitive touch, and reaches arresting emotional depths
New Statesman
Blisses with the bright verdure of youth . . . It’s a novel about us
KAVEH AKBAR, author of Martyr! A gorgeous debut . . . a novel that thrums with hidden love and concealed truths
ANDREW McMILLAN, author of Pity and Physical A luminous portrayal of two teenagers bonding with each other over one heady, transformative year
Waterstones
A striking debut novel . . . as bittersweet and elegiac as birdsong
PATRICK GALE, author of Notes from an Exhibition Accomplished . . . Feelings of love, desire, yearning, fear are mirrored and heightened by an intensely vivid natural world
Irish Times
A tender, eloquent debut novel: in adulthood a man returns (in place and memory) to the village in northern England where, as a teen, he met Luke, his first love
Vanity Fair

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