The Wren, The Wren

The Wren, The Wren is a magnificent novel. Anne Enright’s stylistic brilliance seems to put the reader directly in touch with her characters and the rich territory of their lives – Sally Rooney, author of NORMAL PEOPLE

The Wren, The Wren may be her best book yet – Guardian, Books of the Year

Wonderful… This deceptively modest novel is the kind of book that will work on you long after you have put it down – Sunday Times, Books of the Year

These pages practically crackle with intelligence, compassion and wit. Phil McDaragh is so real I almost googled him. The Wren, The Wren might just be Anne Enright’s best yet – Louise Kennedy, author of Trespasses

Anne Enright’s The Wren, The Wren is so good they named it twice, so good I read it twice – and read two different novels, because moral positions are incorrigibly plural in Enrightville – Observer, Books of the Year

Gritty, sad, sly, riotous… Gem-packed language that fizzes like a sidewalk firecracker. A must-read – Margaret Atwood, author of THE HANDMAID’S TALE (via Twitter)

The Wren, The Wren is Anne Enright at her lyrical, storytelling best – Nicola Sturgeon New Statesman, Books of the Year

This is the golden age of Irish prose fiction. Of our many prodigiously talented novelist, few have the all-encompassing deftness of touch of Anne Enright – Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

One of my books of any year. It’s about womanhood, youth and that slow, painful, but joyous estrangement that emerges between mother and daughter as life runs its tumultuous course – Michael Magee Observer, Books of the Year

A work of astounding ventriloquism and hard-won hope about women’s lives – Times Literary Supplement, Books of the Year

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 eight novels, including The Gathering, which won the 2007 Man Booker Prize. Other awards include the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction for The Forgotten Waltz, the Irish Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award and Novel of the Year (which she has won twice), the Irish PEN Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature and the Seamus Heaney Award for Arts and Letters. In 2015 she was appointed as the first Laureate for Irish Fiction. Most recently she won the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Fiction and the 2025 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction.

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