Wild Houses

Colin Barrett

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Vintage Publishing
2 January 2025
ISBN: 9781529932430
Paperback
272 pages

From the publisher

It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change – the thrilling, riotous debut novel from the Observer Best New Novelist.

**LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024**

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS DEBUT FICTION AWARD 2024**

‘Beautiful…brings to life an entire world’ SALLY ROONEY

‘Sublime… A thrillingly moreish novel’ SUNDAY TIMES

It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change – the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author.

In Ballina, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer Cillian English and County Mayo’s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. Soon the reclusive Dev and Cillian’s teenage brother Doll are drawn headlong into the Ferdias’ revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, Doll’s girlfriend Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save him.

Life in this ordinary town will never be the same again…

AN OBSERVER BEST DEBUT NOVELIST
SHORTLISTED FOR IRISH BOOK AWARDS NOVEL OF THE YEAR

‘A whole world is captured for the reader’ Colm Tóibín

‘As sharp, funny and bitingly bittersweet as life’ Booker Judges, 2024

‘A gift of true storytelling’ Anne Enright

‘A heartbreaker of a debut’ New York Times