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The Lock-Keeper’s Wife is a delicate, dense portrait of one woman’s restless, beautiful mind, her passionate commune with nature, and the neglects she endures and, wonderfully, rises above. The writing is perfect and extraordinary – the work of a prose maestro. -- Nuala O’Connor, author of NORA & Seaborne The Lock Keepers Wife is one of the most evocative and beautifully written books I have read in a long time. Daring in its simplicity this is a small but perfect book, not a word or sentence is out of place. The minute I finished reading it, I immediately turned to begin reading it again, which only happens with rare books but such is the power of John MacKenna’s writing and visual imagery in this moving novel. -- Marita Conlon-McKenna

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John McKenna is the author of seventeen books—novels, short-stories, memoir, biography and poetry. He has also written a number of stage and radio plays and is a frequent contributor to RTE Radio 1. He is a winner of the Hennessy New Writing Award, the Irish Times Fiction Award and the Cecil Day Lewis Literary Award; his novel The Space Between Us was shortlisted for the Kerry Book of the Year Award. He was recently nominated for the position of Irish Fiction Laureate.

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