Farrell and Son
$29.64
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2027
Summary
From the author of the bestselling Mouthing comes a wise and bittersweet novel about life and death, secrets and lies, and one small Irish family in crisis…
Mick Farrell is the only funeral director in Ballyrowan. He is also a very unpopular man – pedantic, tight-fisted and stiff as a corpse. His long-suffering wife Catriona works alongside him, preparing the departed for their final send-off. Their daughter Niamh, a sweet, strange girl, can’t wait to grow up…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241827123 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241827124 |
| Author: | Orla Mackey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2027 |
| Weight: | 271g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 135mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Farrell and Son fizzes with life - as tragedy and comedy, microscopic and epic, a novel of beautifully realised contrasts - set amid the textured vitality of a small rural community and playing out in the not-so-silent presence of death. In Orla Mackey’s hands, life is fragile and funny and sometimes heartstoppingly moving – Kathleen MacMahon, author of ‘Nothing But Blue Sky’
A polyphonic tour de force… I got a giddy feeling in my chest reading it. By turns hilarious and deeply moving, Farrell & Son encapsulates the multitude of reasons why the website RIP.ie is so firmly embedded in the Irish national psyche. I finished the novel with a determination to read anything that Orla Mackey writes – Louise Nealon, author of ‘Everything That Is Beautiful’
Farrell and Son is a profound novel of grief and recovery told with compassion and subtle brilliance… populated by characters that continually reveal new layers of complexity and contradiction – Neil Tully, author of ‘The Visit’
Engrossing, acerbic and brilliant… It is by turns funny, horrifying and all too real * Irish Times on ‘Mouthing’ *
Orla Mackey
Orla Mackey is a writer and teacher based in Kilkenny. She studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin. Her first novel, Mouthing, was an Irish Times bestseller. Her second novel, Farrell and Son, will be published in spring 2027.
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