The novel, which Atlantic Monthly Press will release in the United States on Tuesday, follows Eilish, a biologist and mother of four whose busy domestic life in suburban Dublin is shattered when the secret police show up at her home looking for her husband, a senior leader of a teachers union.
Royal Mail parent International Distribution Services surged on Tuesday after Bank of America Merrill Lynch upgraded the shares to ‘buy’ from ‘neutral’.
Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for fiction on Sunday with what judges called a “soul-shattering” novel about a woman’s struggle to protect her.