- Published: 18 February 2021
- ISBN: 9781473573383
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
The Sunken Road
- Published: 18 February 2021
- ISBN: 9781473573383
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 272
McMenamin writes with verve and honesty
Irish Times
Ciarán McMenamin confirms his exceptional talent with this admirably powerful and authentic novel about the First World War and the struggle for Irish independence. Tremendous.
William Boyd
It's gorgeously written, it's cracking, it runs along with great vivid passages.'
Rick O'Shea, Top Picks for 2021
A masterful depiction of the human cost of war...reveals how even in the worst of horrors, and against all the odds, love can survive. McMenamin writes with a passionate intensity.
David Park
[A] violent and tender story where memorable characters battle love, loyalty and the terrible truths of war
Eithne Farry, Daily Mail
Ambitious and powerful...superbly drawn...a stirring novel broad in location and historical sweep...within a tradition that includes O'Connor, Liam O'Flaherty, Sebastian Barry and Frank McGuinness... Paramount in this tradition is the need to expose the big lies, to help us to see the conflict with fresh eyes - and on all of these counts, McMenamin's ambitious novel scores big
Sunday Times
This gripping novel shifts between [the] race to the south and a slow reveal of what happened between the three men on the Western Front...McMenamin never puts a foot wrong, expertly interweaving the historical and the imagined, right up to his masterly denouement
Hot Press
Ambitious and powerful...superbly drawn...McMenamin's ambitious novel scores big
Sunday Times
There is a smooth grace to his prose...The tension between the compulsions of history and circumstance, and personal moral choice, are played out compellingly
Irish Independent
Set during WW1 and the Irish Civil War, turning on two pivotal stories in Ireland's history -- the foundation of the State, and the Protestant memory of WW1 - the novel follows the story of a brutal IRA man, who now needs the help of his childhood sweetheart, and sister of his dead friend, to cross the border to safety.
Irish Times
A powerful reflection on complex Irish loyalties, divisions and identities, a romantic drama, and a page-turning thriller.
Irish Times