The Booker-nominated writer's debut The Spinning Heart is the
literary read of the year
Kidnap,
betrayal, violence, affairs and heartbreak – in Donal Ryan’s début The
Spinning Heart tensions are simmering very close to the surface. Taking
home Book of the Year at last year’s Irish Book Awards, and recently
longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Guardian First Book Award, Donal
Ryan's The Spinning Heart is setting the literary world alight. The
novel is set in the wake of the financial crash in rural Ireland. Ryan says
that although he did not deliberately set out to write a novel about the
recession, “if you set any work of fiction in contemporary Ireland [the
economic crash] is going to be a huge factor, it’s unavoidable really.
Because it is just everywhere, it permeates every level of society; everyone
in Ireland has been affected in some way.”
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