* THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER *
 
'A CRUCIAL BOOK FOR OUR CURRENT TIMES . . . BRILLIANTLY HAUNTING.'
OBSERVER
 
The explosive literary sensation: a mother faces a terrible choice as Ireland slides into totalitarianism 
 
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step.
 
Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist. Ireland is falling apart.

The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.
 
How far will she go to save her family?
 
And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?
 
Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.
 
'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine — what if this was me?'
FT