Emigration and Brotherhood Reveal One Family’s Hidden Weight
Eleven Irish brothers give the novel scale, but the family mystery gives it shape. Emigration, generations and buried history make this a strong choice for readers who like expansive fiction about what families carry across oceans.
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Emigration and Brotherhood Reveal One Family’s Hidden Weight
Eleven Irish brothers give the novel scale, but the family mystery gives it shape. Emigration, generations and buried history make this a strong choice for readers who like expansive fiction about what families carry across oceans.
- Book Synopsis
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TENDER, IMMERSIVE AND EXQUISITELY WRITTEN' FLORENCE KNAPP
'I COULDN'T STOP READING' RODDY DOYLE
'AN EXQUISITE FAMILY EPIC' CLAIRE LYNCH
An immersive multi-generational family story from the beloved and bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes.
Inspired by the author's own family history, Whale Harbour follows the fortunes of eleven brothers, whose lives are set on different paths in the wake of a sudden tragedy. Whilst the younger brothers remain in Ireland, the older ones head overseas to Montana and New York, where they find work and build lives and families of their own. When one brother mysteriously disappears and becomes estranged from the family, it sparks a lifelong quest to find him.
Ideal for readers who:
- Prioritise family epics about Irish brothers, emigration and inherited grief.
- Need a multi-generational story stretching from Ireland to Montana and New York.
- Notice character-rich fiction where one disappearance reshapes a whole family history.
- Welcome tender, expansive novels about what families carry across distance.
- About The Author
- Mary Beth Keane was awarded a John S. Guggenheim fellowship for fiction writing, and has received citations from the National Book Foundation, PEN America, and the Hemingway Society. She is the author of The Half Moon, The Walking People, Fever, and Ask Again, Yes, which spent eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. To date, Ask Again, Yes has been translated into twenty-two languages.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781399639002
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Phoenix, (14 January 2027)
- Number of Pages
- 352
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 153 mm
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