Old God's TIme

by Sebastian Barry

Narrated by Stephen Hogan

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Pub Date Mar 21 2023 | Archive Date Mar 29 2023

Blackstone Publishing - Audiobooks

General Fiction (Adult) | Health, Mind & Body | Parenting & Families

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Description

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secrets

Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with.

His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom’s family, his wife June, and their two children?

Old God’s Time is a beautiful, haunting novel in which everything is not quite what it seems—a novel about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive us

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secrets

Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a...

A Note From the Publisher

Sebastian Barry, named Irish fiction laureate in 2018, is an author whose novels include A Long Long Way, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, as was The Secret Scripture, which was also a Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist and winner of the Costa Book of the Year Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction, and the Irish Novel of the Year.

Stephen Hogan is a voice talent and audiobook narrator.

Advance Praise

“The gorgeous writing and unreliable narration make it hard to put down this rewarding take on love and grief.”

Publishers Weekly

“There are moments in Old God’s Time that will take your breath away…[Barry] has crafted a meditative, mournful masterpiece, with the pace of a whodunnit.”

Sunday Times (London)

“The gorgeous writing and unreliable narration make it hard to put down this rewarding take on love and grief.”

Publishers Weekly

“There are moments in Old God’s Time that will take your breath...