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A sombre Irish family saga — that glows in the dark

Anne Enright’s The Green Road, a novel about escaping, returning and death, is beautifully executed says Ruth Scurr

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

9 May 2015

9:00 AM

The Green Road Anne Enright

Cape, pp.320, £16.99, ISBN: 9780224089050

The Green Road is a novel in two parts about leaving and returning home. A big house called Ardeevin, walking distance from an unnamed town on the coastline of County Clare, is home to the Madigan family. At the centre of the family is Rosaleen Madigan, the matriarch: ‘A woman who did nothing and expected everything.

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