Montpelier Parade

A delicate, crystalline, hugely impressive novel by Karl Geary. He’s yet another masterful younger writer coming through. But these writers aren’t just promising, they are arriving fully fledged, like a bunch of Hemingways and Waughs. (A pride of Hemingways?) This is language on the side of life, suggesting life, giving life. Wonderful. – Sebastian Barry
Intensely powerful. * Sunday Mirror *
Luminous…brilliantly paced, full of tension and tenderness. * Irish Times *
Few novelists debut with a masterpiece, but Geary has done just that. Stunning. * Mail on Sunday *
Montpelier Parade is haunting – a portrayal of loneliness that is eerily beautiful and desperately moving – Lisa McInerney, author of The Glorious Heresies
Luminous and moving. A story that asks who you can love and how, and a novel that gets to the heart of things; it certainly got to the heart of me. – Sunjeev Sahota
A genuine talent. * Daily Mail *
The precision in his prose bellies his training as a scriptwriter; the plot unfolds with self-assured ease, and the dialogue lives on the page… He trusts his reader, and the novel has compulsive power because of it. An astonishing debut. – Calen O’Hanlon * Skinny *
A groundbreaking debut. Montpelier Parade is a taut, riveting, beautifully sparse coming of age tale from a fearless new talent – Téa Obreht, National Book Award Finalist & New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife
I hope that someone will give me an advance copy… I’ve heard it’s lyrical, brave and inventive – everything I look for in a novel. – Maggie O’Farrell * Observer, Book of the Year *

Karl Geary was born in Dublin. His widely acclaimed debut Montpelier Parade was shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and for Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. Karl lives in Glasgow with his wife and daughter.

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