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Heart, Be at Peace

A Novel

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Heart, Be at Peace

By: Donal Ryan
Narrated by: Anne Marie Ryan, Ciaran O'Brien, Donal Ryan, Eva Bartley, Gerry Howard, Killian Coyle, Roy McMillan, Toni O'Rourke
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Winner of the Irish Book of the Year * Shortlisted for the Nero Novel of the Year * A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice

From one of the most acclaimed Irish writers today, a new novel about smalltown Ireland that explores a community on the mend and the power of love and trauma to both bring people together and divide them

“I said it before. Madness comes circling around. Ten-year cycles, as true as the sun will rise. . .”

In a small town in Ireland, the local people have weathered the storm of economic collapse and now look to the future: The jobs are back, the dramas of the past seemingly lulled, and although the town bears the scars of its history, new stories have begun to unfold.

But an insidious menace now creeps through back-alley shadows and into the lives of the townspeople. Old grudges fester and new ones arise. Young people are lured by the promise of fast money while the generation above them tries to hold back the tide of an enemy beyond their control. And the peace of this town is about to be shattered in an unimaginable way.

A stunning, lyrical novel told in twenty-one voices, Heart, Be at Peace reveals a community that together looks to overcome the betrayals, secrets, and grudges that can divide families, neighbors, and entire generations.

©2025 Donal Ryan (P)2025 Penguin Audio
Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural World Literature Inspiring
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Critic reviews

An Post Irish Book of the Year

“Ryan’s sentences gleam, peeling the calloused skin of machismo to expose the vulnerabilities of his men, cutting against our expectations. . .Heart, Be at Peace moves with the lightness and felicity of a story collection, sifting relationships built on sand, pummeled by tides of human folly.”New York Times Book Review

“[T]he structure of Heart, Be at Peace is exactly what makes it compelling. The tension and slow unraveling of the mystery at the heart of this chronicle of small-town and small-city Ireland today, fraught with problems created by drug dealers and scam artists, is brought to brilliant life through the intertwining of voices and the individual stories of protagonists and antagonists, heroes and villains, characters both peripheral and intrinsic.”New York Journal of Books

“Spellbinding. . .a gripping story that is heartbreaking, funny and occasionally raunchy of a beaten-down but resilient community that embodies the best and worst of humanity.”―Associated Press

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