'Readers will find it timely and unforgettable. It's a remarkable accomplishment for a novelist to capture the social and political anxieties of our moment so compellingly.'
-- Booker Prize judges
'If there was ever a crucial book for our current times, it's Paul Lynch's Prophet Song... A brilliantly haunting novel.'
-- Observer
'I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable - Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy - but this novel will stand entirely on its own.'
-- Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon
'Thunderously powerful... In Prophet Song Paul Lynch asks us to face some of our darkest fears, and if he offers no comfort, and little hope, then we must surely recognize his true purpose: that the furious reader should return to the real world determined to find a better ending for this story.'
-- TLS
'Nightmarish yet horribly convincing... Powerful, claustrophobic and horribly real. From its opening pages it exerts a grim kind of grip... Lynch's depiction of Eilish is nuanced and sympathetic, and in the fiercely embodied quality of her love for her children, entirely successful.'
-- Guardian
'Surely one of the most important novels of this decade.'
-- Ron Rash, author of Serena
'A compassionate, propulsive and timely novel that forces the reader to imagine - what if this was me?'
-- FT
'This is one of the most harrowing, minatory and provocative novels I have read in a while... The final and penultimate chapters are truly shuddersome.'
-- Scotsman
'The fifth novel from one of the most acclaimed Irish writers of his generation... As an adventure story-cum-political warning, it's being touted as Ireland's 1984.'
-- Telegraph
'In his typically lyrical, lulling style, Lynch pulls off a masterstroke... The chill, so close to home, is blood curdling.'
-- Big Issue
'Monumental... You remember why fiction matters. It's hard to recall a more powerful novel in recent years.'
-- Samantha Harvey, author of The Western Wind
'A book of encroaching terror... Lynch's language is darkly lyrical, rich.'
-- Sunday Telegraph
'Certain sequences read like a thriller - readers will find themselves literally holding their breath - while others are rendered in beautiful, lyrical prose.'
-- Irish Independent
'Gripping and chilling, and terribly prescient - a novel with a darkly important message about this particular moment in time.'
-- Sara Baume, author of Spill Simmer Falter Wither
'Chillingly plausible.'
-- Irish Times
'Part cautionary-tale; part dystopian-nightmare; part fever dream... A masterclass in terror and dread.'
-- Alan McMonagle, author of Ithaca
'The work of a master novelist, Prophet Song is a stunning, midnight vision whose themes are at once ancient and all too timely: fear, complicity, resistance, and what becomes of us when hell rises to our homeland.'
-- Rob Doyle, author of Threshold
'I don't know when I last read a book that left me as shaken and disturbed as Paul Lynch's fifth novel. It is a tremendous achievement... This is one of the most important novels of 2023. Paul Lynch is a fearless writer - unafraid of taking on large themes and tackling them face to face.'
-- Irish Examiner
