A Beautiful Loan
$32.23
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
24 March 2026
Summary
Exquisitely written and profoundly moving - the new literary novel from an award-winning Irish author.
‘An exceptional, compulsive novel of love, loss and courage.’ - Sinead Gleeson
‘Mary Costello is a writer of rare and exquisite sensitivity.’ - Paul Lynch
‘One of our foremost women writers.’ - Guardian
This is Anna’s story.
In Dublin in 1985, nineteen-year-old Anna Hughes is in thrall to Peter Gallagher, an older, worldly man. Anna is introverted and …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923058286 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923058282 |
| Author: | Mary Costello |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 24 March 2026 |
| Weight: | 284g |
| Dimensions: | 233mm x 154mm x 17mm |
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Critics Review
‘A book that grabs the reader from page one.’ * Australian *
‘Costello is a writer of rare and exquisite sensitivity – intimate, piercing, death-haunted – with sentences that can turn on a pin into vastness.’ * Paul Lynch *
‘Brings to mind the elegance of Colm Tóibín and the insight of Alice Munro.’
* Maggie O’Farrell *‘Mary Costello has a genius for taking ordinary, unheralded lives and discovering within them the disquiet, the disillusionment, concealed just below the surface.’ * Australian *
‘Costello’s writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand.’ * Anne Enright *
‘I loved this quiet story, which deftly illumines the perils of absolutism in love and faith.’ * Molly Murn, author of Heart of the Grass Tree *
‘Grounded, fully charged and realistic…’ * Saturday Paper *
‘There is no greater chronicler of the inner life at this moment. As artificial intelligence and big tech force an increasingly diminished definition upon us of what it means to be human, this novel reminds us that we are so much more.’ * Guardian *
About The Author
Mary Costello
Mary Costello’s short story collection, The China Factory, was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Novel of the Year Award and was named overall Irish Book of the Year in 2014. The River Capture, her second novel, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Group Awards and the Dalkey Book Awards. Mary Costello lives in Galway.
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