Wild Houses by Colin Barrett (HC)

It’s the biggest weekend of the year and everything is about to change – the thrilling debut novel from the prize-winning author.

In Ballina, the simmering feud between small-time drug-dealer Cillian English and County Mayo’s enforcers, Gabe and Sketch Ferdia, spills over into violence and an ugly ultimatum. Soon the reclusive Dev and Cillian’s teenage brother Doll are drawn headlong into the Ferdias’ revenge fantasy. Meanwhile, Doll’s girlfriend Nicky sets out on a feverish mission to save him.

Life in this ordinary town will never be the same again…

REVIEWS

"Sublime… Wild Houses is a thrillingly moreish novel with some of the sharpest dialogue I’ve read in any recent debut and characters who held me captive until the very last page." ― Sunday Times

"A delicate and beautiful book about the lives of lonely people... Page after faultless page, Wild Houses is a sheer joy to read... Colin Barrett's the real deal, but then we knew that already." ― Irish Times

"So consistently witty and inventive that one struggles to think of recent novels that could stand up to comparison." ― Guardian, *Book of the Day*

PRODUCT DETAILS
Hardcover Edition
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
ISBN: 978-0224099851
Pages:  272