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About the Book

The highly inventive and deeply moving new novel from the award-winning author- when several children from the same village succumb to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has devastating and extraordinary consequences. It is late June in Ballylack. Hannah Adger anticipates eight long weeks' reprieve from school, but when her classmate Ross succumbs to a violent and mysterious illness, it marks the beginning of a summer like no other. As others fall ill, questions about what - or who - is responsible pitch the village into conflict and fearful disarray. Hannah, ever the outsider, is haunted by guilt as she remains healthy while her friends are struck down. Isolated and afraid, she prays for help. What happens next will force her to question everything she believes. Bursting with Carson's trademark wit, profound empathy and soaring imagination, The Raptures explores how tragedy can unite a small community - and tear it apart. At its heart is the extraordinary resilience of one young girl. As the world crumbles around her, she must find the courage to be different in a place where conforming feels like the only option available. The Raptures is an unmissable novel of 2022. It will cement Jan Carson's reputation as one of the most exciting and inventive writers of her generation.

About the Author :
Jan Carson is a writer and community arts facilitator based in Belfast. Her first novel, Malcolm Orange Disappears, was published in 2014 to critical acclaim, followed by a short-story collection, Children's Children (2016), and two flash fiction anthologies, Postcard Stories (2017) and Postcard Stories 2 (2020). Her second novel, The Fire Starters (2019), won the EU Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Novel of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and on BBC Radio 3 and 4. She has won the Harper's Bazaar short-story competition and has been shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award and the Sean Faolain Short Story Prize. She specializes in running arts projects and events with older people, especially those living with dementia.

Review :
Absolutely MAGNIFICENT: dark, witty, charming. I LOVED it Heart-rending, hilarious . . . It's a belter. An Agatha Christie-esque whodunnit, a dark supernatural mystery and an account of mass trauma. Carson forges these parts into a tragicomedy in which fantastic elements slot almost seamlessly alongside kitchen-sink realism...compassionate and meticulously observed.' Original and vivid, The Raptures is its own beautiful, unique thing The book's beauty comes from its hilarious depiction of claustrophobic small-town life


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781781620472
  • Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ireland Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Doubleday Ireland
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 336
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: ‘Original and exciting, terrifying and hilarious’ Sunday Times Ireland
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1781620474
  • Publisher Date: 06 Jan 2022
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 24 mm
  • Weight: 331 gr


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