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      WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES AND IRISH TIMESSean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the casual jobs that always fall through. Back in these scarred streets, where the promised prosperity of peacetime has never arrived. Back among his brothers, his ma, and all the things they never talk about. Until one night Sean finds himself at a party – dog-tired, surrounded by jeering strangers, his back against the wall – and he makes a big mistake.'Staggeringly humane, unfaltering, taut and tender... [It] feels like that rarest of things: a genuinely necessary book' Guardian'Every detail rings true, every character is fleshy and real and heartbreaking... Michael Magee has a remarkable talent' Sunday Times
      CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Magee EAN: 9780241996409 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 500 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-04-04 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

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      Belfast, Relating to lower socioeconomic groups / status, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Social issues, Social classes

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      Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen’s University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32: The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Close to Home is his first novel. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023 and won the Rooney Prize for Literature 2023.

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      WINNER OF THE ROONEY PRIZE FOR LITERATURE 2023WATERSTONES IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES DEBUT FICTION PRIZE 2023ONE OF SARAH JESSICA PARKER’S BEST BOOKS OF 2023BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES AND IRISH TIMESSean is back. Back in Belfast and back into old habits. Back on the mad all-nighters, the borrowed tenners and missing rent, the casual jobs that always fall through. Back in these scarred streets, where the promised prosperity of peacetime has never arrived. Back among his brothers, his ma, and all the things they never talk about. Until one night Sean finds himself at a party – dog-tired, surrounded by jeering strangers, his back against the wall – and he makes a big mistake.'Staggeringly humane, unfaltering, taut and tender... [It] feels like that rarest of things: a genuinely necessary book' Guardian'Every detail rings true, every character is fleshy and real and heartbreaking... Michael Magee has a remarkable talent' Sunday Times
      CONTRIBUTORS: Michael Magee EAN: 9780241996409 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 500 g HEIGHT: 198 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2024-04-04 CITY: GENRE: FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Family Life / General WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Belfast, Relating to lower socioeconomic groups / status, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Displacement, exile, migration, Narrative theme: Social issues, Social classes

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      Michael Magee is the fiction editor of the Tangerine and a graduate of the creative writing PhD programme at Queen’s University, Belfast. His writing has appeared in Winter Papers, The Stinging Fly, The Lifeboat and The 32: The Anthology of Irish Working-Class Voices. Close to Home is his first novel. It was shortlisted for the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2023 and won the Rooney Prize for Literature 2023.

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