WHERE ARE THE KINGS

Tender moving full of warmth and crackling with humour and the love of family the exquisite new novel from the winner of the Orwell Prize for Fiction and the Irish Book of the Year Beautiful hilarious and completely gripping RACHEL JOYCE No one gets inside the heart like Donal Ryan KIT DE WAAL Donal Ryan conjures up characters so solid so complete and authentic it immediately feels as though you have known them for your entire life JOANNA CANNON Something terrible has happened to Jack but no one seems to want to talk about it His uncles can tell him about everything from quantum physics to how to hunt for deer but they can t seem to tell him anything about their own sister or why Jack doesn t feel sad for her in the way he should or why Grandad tries to shoot Jack s dad when he gets out of the hospital Still there s work to be done in the oily wonderland of his uncles garage there s his beautiful aunt Rose to hypnotise him and his loving grandparents to console him then there s JJ who wants to fight him one day and save him the next But with so many questions in a family with so many secrets it is difficult for Jack to understand the person he is becoming How can a simple boy learn to become a king Tender funny mysterious and hopeful