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  • Published: 15 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529935868
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

Heart, Be at Peace





A standalone sequel to Donal’s award-winning bestseller, The Spinning Heart

In Heart, Be at Peace, which can be read independently, Donal picks up the twenty-one voices from The Spinning Heart ten years on, in 2019.

Small-town Ireland is a different place, the economy having recovered from the economic crash that served as a backdrop to the events in that book. Now the work is back, the dramas have all seemingly died down, the dark days of recession and struggle are over.

But a new menace is creeping around the lakeshore and the lanes of the town, old grudges are festering and new ones are rising, and the peace of the community is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way. Young people are being drawn towards the promise of fast money whilst the generation above them tries to push back the tide of an enemy none of them can touch.

  • Published: 15 August 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529935868
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99

About the author

Donal Ryan

Donal Ryan was born in a village in north Tipperary, a stroll from the shores of Lough Derg. Donal wrote the first draft of The Spinning Heart in the long summer evenings of 2010, and has also completed a second novel. He lives with his wife Anne Marie and two children just outside Limerick City.

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