All We Shall Know

byDonal Ryan

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From the twice Man Booker longlisted author of From a Low and Quiet Sea

'Poetic, powerful and heart-rending' THE TIMES

'An exquisite account of womanhood, friendship, prejudice and tradition that is both intimate in scale and awesome in achievement' IRISH INDEPENDENT


Melody Shee is alone and in trouble. Her husband doesn't take her news too well. She can't tell her father yet because he's a good man and this could break him. She's trying to stay in the moment, but the future is looming - larger by the day - while the past won't let her go. What she did to Breedie Flynn all those years ago still haunts her.

It's a good thing that she meets Mary Crothery when she does. Mary is a young Traveller woman, and she knows more about Melody than she lets on. She might just save Melody's life.

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'A joy to read, for all that it breaks your heart' INDEPENDENT

'One of the finest writers working in Ireland today ... worthy of Greek Drama' GUARDIAN

'A stunning piece of work, utterly truthful and emotionally powerful' JOSEPH O'CONNOR

'Work of genius ... I was entranced by it. Buckled by it' SEBASTIAN BARRY

Poetic, powerful and heart-rending

The Times

About Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan, from Nenagh, County Tipperary, has published seven number one bestselling novels and a short story collection. He has won several awards for his fiction, including the European Union Prize for Literature, the Guardian First Book Award and six Irish Book Awards, and has been shortlisted for several more, including the Costa Book Award and the Dublin International Literary Award. He was nominated for the Booker Prize in 2013 for his debut novel, The Spinning Heart, and again in 2018, for his fourth novel, From A Low and Quiet Sea. The Spinning Heart was voted Irish Book of the Decade in 2016. In 2021 Donal became the first Irish writer to be awarded the Jean Monnet Prize for European Literature. His most recent novel, Heart Be at Peace, won both Novel of the Year and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Nero Book Awards. His work has been adapted for stage and screen and translated into over twenty languages. Donal has lectured in Creative Writing at the University of Limerick since 2014 and lives in Castletroy with his wife Anne Marie and their two children.
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  • Imprint: Black Swan Ireland
  • ISBN: 9781784164997
  • Length: 256 pages
  • Dimensions: 198mm x 18mm x 128mm
  • Weight: 178g
  • Price: £9.99
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