Solar Bones

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

BGE IRISH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016

WINNER OF THE 2016 GOLDSMITHS PRIZE.

Marcus Conway has come a long way to stand in the kitchen of his home and remember the rhythms and routines of his life. Considering with his engineer's mind how things are constructed - bridges, banking systems, marriages - and how they may come apart.

Mike McCormack captures with tenderness and feeling, in continuous, flowing prose, a whole life, suspended in a single hour.