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Longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.

From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast. The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and selfishness―a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we strive to fill them.

Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful mother announces that she’s decided to sell the house and divide the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas, with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their personal history bought and sold.

A profoundly moving work about a family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.

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28 April 2015
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16.51 x 3.05 x 24.38 cm
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ W. W. Norton & Company (28 April 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 304 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0393248216
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0393248210
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.51 x 3.05 x 24.38 cm

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Anne Teresa Enright FRSL (born 11 October 1962) is an Irish author. She has published novels, short stories, essays, and one non-fiction book. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her novel The Gathering won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. She has also won the 1991 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2001 Encore Award and the 2008 Irish Novel of the Year.

Before winning the Man Booker Prize, Enright had a low profile in Ireland and the United Kingdom, although her books were favourably reviewed and widely praised. Her writing explores themes such as family relationships, love and sex, Ireland's difficult past and its modern zeitgeist.

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Angela O'Brien

Unnervingly familiar

Reviewed in Australia on 23 November 2015

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I come from a family of 5 siblings with some Irish background though I have never lived in Ireland. I also have grown up children .The familial relationships in this novel were quite disturbing for me because they were achingly familiar. I could relate to the characters as daughter, mother and sibling. All the pettiness of family life is closely examined, but without high drama. This is such a plain domestic novel yet the lives of these ordinary people are intensely lived and felt. The relationships are both strong yet fragile and highly nuanced. There are no heroes and no villains. The characters are as they are - neither good nor bad - just living the best they can in the complex world of the everyday. The language is clean, economical and evocative - much is said in few words. The insights are that of a mature writer. I thought The Green Road was masterfully written and deeply moving.

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gertrude

Too many individual stories

Reviewed in Australia on 28 November 2021

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It started out very promising but I found on the individual stories as almost complete on themselves and I felt the writer had a problem tying them altogether in the last chapter.

Reviewed in Australia on 5 January 2019

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Thoroughly enjoyed this book. Enjoyed the diversity of the family, the varying perceptions of their upbringing and their mother. A very dynamic and enjoyable book.

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Julie Granger

A saga of poor communication

Reviewed in Australia on 29 January 2020

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The book ended rather abruptly for my liking, although I enjoyed it for the most part. It underlines the fact that no matter how close a family is - they never really know each other.

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Judith Ring

I also enjoyed the description of the Irish countryside

Reviewed in Australia on 29 June 2015

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This book would interest people with an Irish background as it explores the culture that binds their families together. I felt the ending wasn't really the finish and I wanted to know more. It exposes the twisted thinking that many siblings experience as well as the ties to our parents that can cause havoc in our lives. I also enjoyed the description of the Irish countryside.

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karen halasa

Contemporary Irish Family relationships

Reviewed in Australia on 23 July 2017

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A wonderful warm but not sentimental portrait of family, Irish family, life. Anne Enright writes in an authentic Irish voice of the universal proclivities and insanities and loves that make up relationships in all families.

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ElizEd

Credible story of four siblings affected differently by a difficult ...

Reviewed in Australia on 30 July 2015

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Credible story of four siblings affected differently by a difficult mother, and their journey as adults with separate lives. They are reunited in their childhood home to revisit their relationship with their mother.

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Elizabeth O'Hare

Best book I've read this year

Reviewed in Australia on 23 June 2017

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Marvellous book. Such richness of language and descriptive of characters.

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Janie U

Loved reading this but disappointed by the end

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 25 May 2016

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I liked this book very much.
The first half of the story focuses on the individual members of the family. We see them over a wide period of time and, through each of them, learn about what has happened to the others. This is a difficult feat to achieve and I think that this author manages the structural challenges well.
They then get together in the second half and I found myself being irritated by them all reverting to childhood behaviours, although think that this is exactly what the book needed. Once I got further into the second half I realxed with it and really enjoyed it.
What annoyed me about this book was the end. No spoilers but it felt quite disappointing and I felt that the author didn't really know how to finish the book.

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Ralph Blumenau

I found it unreadable

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 July 2021

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II had to give up three quarters of the way through this book, something I have hardly ever done before. Some of stories were quite readable, though I could not see their significance (perhaps because I did not finish the book), but I found the style dreadfully obscure, with a lot of ultra-laconic dialogue. What I could make out of the characters was that they were all very unlikeable and screwed up.

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Julia Watts

If you like this family account literature

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 26 April 2016

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I've read a few books in a similar vein just recently. If you like this family account literature, A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler is the one to go for. The characters in The Green Road just weren't very likeable or interesting.They were, on the other hand, very realistic but most of the people I know have more interesting lives and just as complicated relationships with their families. The quality of the writing was very good - someone needs to give Anne Enright something proper to write about. The account of Dan the gay son who lived in the US was the most interesting but it was as though the novelist couldn't quite fill a whole novel with his story and his relations' accounts seemed tacked on.

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Mrs JR McLaren

A memorable read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 24 April 2019

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I thoroughly enjoyed this book, for the most part. It painted a vivid picture and I found the characters sympathetic and authentic. My only slight negative is that I felt the richness of the language sometimes got in the way of the story. It was a little like munching through an enormous bar of chocolate: very enjoyable at first, but a bit too rich by the end. All the same, I would recommend it.

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Cathy

A Christmas to Avoid

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 September 2015

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Yet another dysfunctional family contending for the Man Booker. This is an Irish family. Mother is ageing and living in a crumbling house and she decides to move ad gathers the family for one last Christmas. We look at each child at a crucial period of their lives. The daughter struggling with alcoholism and a baby. The daughter struggling with ill health and a caring role for everyone else. The son who was going to be a priest but struggles with his sexuality and commitment. Finally the son who is struggling with the injustices of the world in remote areas. Predictably Christmas is a nightmare. What I didn't care for about this book was the fact that the mother was such an entirely self centred person and could not warm to her or many of the characters.

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