The Green Road

Confirms her as one of the most significant writers of her generation…. A master. She has certainly produced a masterly work. * Sunday Times *The Green Road is true and rueful, as terribly adult in its clarity as its battered Madigans. – James Wood * New Yorker *Enright is a shape-shifter who gets into the nerve centres of her creations; the power of her prose lies in its absence of ego. The Green Road is a devastating novel about home and how savage a place it can be. – Frances Wilson * New Statesman *This novel should confirm Enright’s status as one of our (their?) greatest living novelists. I hope she can be persuaded to do a sequel. – John Sutherland * The Times *[A] brilliant, devastating, radical novel. – Kate Clanchy * Guardian *‘[Enright] is that rare thing: a very, very good writer… I settled into the book in a way I hadn’t done for weeks; the world of it seemed to me more transfixingly real than anything else, for the time I was reading it. When a writer of Enright’s quality pays such attention to the way that things really are, all we can do is pay rapt attention back. – Emma Townshend * Independent On Sunday *Enright has written yet another wise and sophisticated novel… Simple and brilliant. You can’t even really call this ‘brave’ writing, because what makes Enright so good is the feeling that she was never afraid in the first place – Claire Lowdon * Literary Review *Superb. – Terry Eagleton * London Review of Books *An intense and thought-provoking read about family, behaviour and consequences… Will resonate long after the final page. – Jacqueline Kilikita * Stylist *Enright is a writer with a wonderful and enviable lightness of touch… This is a wholly delightful novel, and a wise one. – Allan Massie * Scotsman *

Anne Enright was born in Dublin, where she now lives and works. She has written two collections of stories, published together as Yesterday’s Weather, one book of non-fiction, Making Babies, and seven novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize, The Forgotten Waltz, which was awarded the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and The Green Road, which was the Bord Gais Energy Novel of the Year and won the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction, and in 2018 she received the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature. She is also the recipient of the 2022 Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction, and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

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