Prophet Song: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 - INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

Winner of the 2024 Dayton Literary Peace Prize
Finalist for the 2024 Kirkus Prize
Shortlisted for the 2025 Dublin Literary Award

One of The Irish Times's 100 Best Books of the 21st Century

"A prophetic masterpiece." - Ron Charles, Washington Post

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find two officers from Ireland's newly formed secret police on her step. They have arrived to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart, caught in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny. As the life she knows and the ones she loves disappear before her eyes, Eilish must contend with the dystopian logic of her new, unraveling country. How far will she go to save her family? And what--or who--is she willing to leave behind?

The winner of the Booker Prize 2023 and a critically acclaimed national bestseller, Prophet Song presents a terrifying and shocking vision of a country sliding into authoritarianism and a deeply human portrait of a mother's fight to hold her family together.

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Published Dec 5, 2023

336 pages

Average rating: 7.41

203 RATINGS

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Community Reviews

TaniaReads
Feb 13, 2026
10/10 stars
As brilliant at it is devastating. It’s painful to read and yet I want to re-read it.
Lucymac
Nov 08, 2025
7/10 stars
Didn't enjy the prose style
Elle11
Oct 26, 2025
8/10 stars
Haunting and really stuck with me. Writing style is a bit hard to follow as it runs on.
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Jul 21, 2025
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QuiteContrary
Jun 10, 2025
7/10 stars
Grim story

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