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Old God's Time

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Old God's Time

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring love, memory, grief and long-buried secrets.

Recently retired policeman Tom Kettle is settling into the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a Victorian castle overlooking the Irish Sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, catching only glimpses of his eccentric landlord and a nervous young mother who has moved in next door. Occasionally, fond memories return of his family --- his beloved wife, June, and their two children, Winnie and Joe.

But when two former colleagues turn up at his door with questions about a decades-old case, one that Tom never quite came to terms with, he finds himself pulled into the darkest currents of his past.

A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems, OLD GOD'S TIME is about what we live through, what we live with and what may survive of us.

Old God's Time
by Sebastian Barry

  • Publication Date: March 19, 2024
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin Books
  • ISBN-10: 0593296125
  • ISBN-13: 9780593296127