Death And Nightingales
  • Published: 1 September 1993
  • ISBN: 9780749398682
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99

Death And Nightingales

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1 Sep 1993
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'Death and Nightingales is a miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm Tóibín

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‘Poetic and compelling, with a heart-stopping plot twist, Death and Nightingales seems to me a perfect novel’ Hilary Mantel

'A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... a masterpiece' Colm Tóibín

It is 1883 and against the fearsome, unforgiving beauty of the Fermanagh landscape, the fate of Beth Winters unfolds.

Beth is determined to decide her own destiny but charmed by the roguish Liam Ward she seems doomed to repeat the tragic mistakes of her family’s past. Through the events of her twenty-fifth birthday, decades of pain and betrayal build to a devastating, deadly climax.
  • Published: 1 September 1993
  • ISBN: 9780749398682
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Eugene McCabe

Eugene McCabe was born in Glasgow in 1930. His novel Death and Nightingales, published in 1992, was described by Michael Ondaatje as 'a deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book'; John Banville said that it 'should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists', and Colm Toibin called it 'clearly one of the great Irish masterpieces of the century'.

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Praise for Death And Nightingales

I believe Death and Nightingales is the finest novel by the greatest living Irish prose writer

Alan Warner

Crisp, taut and unsentimental...this tragic tale of gold, prejudice, terrorism, emigration, love and oppression remains an impressive and moving achievement

Observer

A work of the highest literary quality...only a master craftsman could bring a novel so smoothly and devastatingly full circle

Sunday Independent

Death and Nightingales should put Eugene McCabe in the first rank of contemporary Irish novelists

John Banville

A miracle of a novel which combines prose of bleak, unadorned beauty with a plot that keeps you up all night wondering how it will end... Clearly one of the masterpieces of the century

Colm Toibin

A deeply moving, powerful, and unforgettable book

Michael Ondaatje

A novel of breadth, power and passion… From its poisonous and dramatic opening to its engrossing ending this novel will hold you in thrall throughout

Bernard MacLaverty

A truly astonishing novel – it goes straight to the heart

Hilary Mantel
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