2023 Booker Prize Winner, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

The world we encounter in Paul Lynch’s 2023 Booker Prize Winner, Prophet Song is familiar, traumatic, and terrifying. And it could so easily become reality, is indeed already real for millions of people.

The power of Paul Lynch’s writing creates a gripping narrative, at once both repulsive and compelling. His ability to build tension on the page almost imperceptibly, like the dark undercurrent of a bad dream, is consummate. By focussing on the plight of one woman and revealin...