A Beautiful Loan by Mary Costello
A heart-wrenching, sweeping new novel following a woman's life and relationships from the winner of Irish Book of the Year
An exceptional, compulsive novel of love, loss and courageTold in poetic, clear-eyed prose, A Beautiful Loan is heart-breaking but unsentimental, and easily Costello's best work yet -- SINEAD GLEESON
Mary Costello is a writer of a rare and exquisite sensitivity - intimate, piercing, death-haunted - with sentences that can turn on a pin into vastness -- PAUL LYNCH
Praise for Mary Costello: Costello's writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand -- ANNE ENRIGHT
I read Academy Street cover to cover in one night, unable to stop . . . [It] brings to mind the elegance of Colm Toibin and the insight of Alice Munro -- MAGGIE O'FARRELL
Clear-eyed and provocative, bruised and bruising . . . a writer at the very top of her game -- EIMEAR McBRIDE
With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion -- J.M. COETZEE
It is rare that a writer of fiction can evoke such depth of feeling and visceral/moral revulsion as Mary Costello -- JOYCE CAROL OATES
A clear line of sight into the core of our humanity -- DONAL RYAN
Mary Costello is a writer of rare and exquisite sensitivity - intimate, piercing, death-haunted - with sentences that can turn on a pin into vastness -- PAUL LYNCH
Beautiful, quietly shattering * * Guardian * *
Mary Costello is a writer of a rare and exquisite sensitivity - intimate, piercing, death-haunted - with sentences that can turn on a pin into vastness -- PAUL LYNCH
Praise for Mary Costello: Costello's writing has the kind of urgency that the great problems demand -- ANNE ENRIGHT
I read Academy Street cover to cover in one night, unable to stop . . . [It] brings to mind the elegance of Colm Toibin and the insight of Alice Munro -- MAGGIE O'FARRELL
Clear-eyed and provocative, bruised and bruising . . . a writer at the very top of her game -- EIMEAR McBRIDE
With extraordinary devotion, Mary Costello brings to life a woman who would otherwise have faded into oblivion -- J.M. COETZEE
It is rare that a writer of fiction can evoke such depth of feeling and visceral/moral revulsion as Mary Costello -- JOYCE CAROL OATES
A clear line of sight into the core of our humanity -- DONAL RYAN
Mary Costello is a writer of rare and exquisite sensitivity - intimate, piercing, death-haunted - with sentences that can turn on a pin into vastness -- PAUL LYNCH
Beautiful, quietly shattering * * Guardian * *
Mary Costello lives in Galway. Her short story collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and shortlisted for an Irish Book Award. Her first novel, Academy Street (2014), won the Irish Novel of the Year Award at the Irish Book Awards and was named overall Irish Book of the Year. It was serialised on BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, the EU Prize for Literature and the Prix Littéraire des Ambassadeurs de la Francophonie en Irlande, and has been translated into several languages. Her critically acclaimed second novel, The River Capture (2019) was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards, the Kerry Novel of the Year and the Dalkey Novel Award. Her second short story collection, Barcelona (2024) was an Irish Times Bestseller.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781837263103 |
| ISBN 10 | 1837263108 |
| Title | A Beautiful Loan |
| Author | Mary Costello |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2026-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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