Read by Stephen Hogan

From the two-time Booker Prize finalist author, a dazzlingly written novel exploring memory, grief, and long-buried secrets Retired policeman Tom Kettle is enjoying the quiet of his new home, a lean-to annexed to a white Victorian Castle in Dalkey overlooking the sea. For months he has barely seen a soul, but his peace is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask questions about a decades-old case. A traumatic case which Tom never quite came to terms with. His peace is further disturbed by a young mother and family who move in next door, a woman on the run from her own troubles. And what of Tom's family, his wife June, and their two children? Old God's Time is a beautiful, haunting novel in which everything is not quite what it seems-a novel about what we live through, what we live with, and what may survive us. "An attentive character study, an engrossing crime story, and an unsparing lament for Ireland itself." "Stephan Hogan is the ideal interpreter of Sebastian Barry's thoughtful, multilayered novel. His clear, soft Irish accent pulls listeners in…He handles shifts in perspective and reality with an ease that reduces confusion…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award." "[A] sublime study of love, trauma, memory, and loss…The ending is a tour de force of transcendent power and complexity." "A meditative, mournful masterpiece, with the pace of a whodunnit." "Combining verbal exuberance and narrative intricacy, Barry reimagines the hauntings of Irish history." "Barry has always had a gift for creating memorable characters, and Tom is one of his most fascinating ones." "[A] masterful mystery from Ireland's Thomas Hardy." "A beautifully told, piercingly sad story." "Narrator Stephen Hogan portrays Kettle as an older man exhausted by his responsibilities and memories, even when those memories are slippery and misleading….Perfect for readers of Dervla McTiernan and Donal Ryan."

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